NVIDIA GeForce 9600M GS: specs and benchmarks

General info
Technical specs
Memory
Technologies
Benchmarks
Gaming
AMD equivalent
Advices and comments
Summary
NVIDIA started GeForce 9600M GS sales 3 June 2008. This is G9x architecture notebook card based on 65 nm manufacturing process and primarily aimed at office use. 1 GB of GDDR2, GDDR3 memory clocked at 0.8 GHz are supplied, and together with 128 Bit memory interface this creates a bandwidth of 25.6 GB / s.
Compatibility-wise, this is card attached via MXM-II interface. Power consumption is at 20 Watt.
It provides poor gaming and benchmark performance at 0.11 percent of a leader's which is NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 SLI Mobile.
General info
Of GeForce 9600M GS's architecture, market type and release date.
Technical specs
GeForce 9600M GS's general performance parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core clock, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of GeForce 9600M GS's performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider its benchmark and gaming test results.
CUDA cores
32
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Information on GeForce 9600M GS's compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For notebook video cards it's notebook size, connection slot and bus, if the video card is inserted into a slot instead of being soldered to the notebook motherboard.
Laptop size
medium sized
Interface
MXM-II
Memory
Parameters of memory installed on GeForce 9600M GS: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Note that GPUs integrated into processors don't have dedicated memory and use a shared part of system RAM.
Memory type
GDDR2, GDDR3
Shared memory
-
Video outputs and ports
Types and number of video connectors present on GeForce 9600M GS.
Display Connectors
No outputs
Technologies
Technological solutions and APIs supported by GeForce 9600M GS. You'll probably need this information if you need some particular technology for your purposes.
PCI-E 2.0
+
API support
APIs supported by GeForce 9600M GS, sometimes including their particular versions.
DirectX
DirectX 10, Shader 4.0
Benchmark performance
Non-gaming benchmarks performance of GeForce 9600M GS. Note that overall benchmark performance is measured in points in 0-100 range.
Overall benchmark performance
0.11
3DMark Vantage Performance
1135
Passmark
231
Game benchmarks
Let's see how good GeForce 9600M GS is for gaming. Particular gaming benchmark results are measured in FPS. Comparisons with system requirements are included, but remember that sometimes official requirements may reflect real performance inaccurately.
Relative perfomance
Overall GeForce 9600M GS performance compared to its nearest competitors. All GPU types participate.
AMD equivalent
We believe that the nearest equivalent to GeForce 9600M GS from AMD is Radeon HD 8210, which is faster by 9% and higher by 7 positions in our rating.