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NVIDIA GeForce 9650M GS: specs and benchmarks
Price now
180$
Games supported
48%
- Interface PCIe 2.0 x16
- Core clock speed 625MHz
- Max video memory 512 MB
- Memory type GDDR2?, GDDR3
- Memory clock speed 800MHz
- Maximum resolution
Year of release
2008
Performance
0.69
Summary
NVIDIA started GeForce 9650M GS sales 13 March 2008. This is a G8x architecture notebook card based on 80 nm manufacturing process and primarily aimed at office use. 512 MB 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 PCIe 2.0 x16 interface. Power consumption is at 29 Watt.
It provides poor gaming and benchmark performance at
0.69%
of a leader's which is NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090.
General info
Some basic facts about GeForce 9650M GS: architecture, market segment, release date etc.
| Place in performance ranking | 1079 | |
| Value for money | 0.01 | |
| Architecture | G8x (2007−2008) | |
| GPU code name | NB9P-GS1 | |
| Market segment | Laptop | |
| Release date | 13 March 2008 (15 years old) | |
| Current price | $180 | of 158889 (A100 PCIe) |
Value for money
Technical specs
GeForce 9650M GS's specs such as number of shaders, GPU base clock, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of GeForce 9650M GS's performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider its benchmark and gaming test results.
| Pipelines / CUDA cores | 32 | of 20480 (Data Center GPU Max NEXT) |
| CUDA cores | 32 | |
| Core clock speed | 625 MHz | of 2610 (Radeon RX 6500 XT) |
| Number of transistors | 289 million | of 14400 (GeForce GTX 1080 SLI Mobile) |
| Manufacturing process technology | 80 nm | of 4 (GeForce RTX 4080) |
| Power consumption (TDP) | 29 Watt | of 2400 (Data Center GPU Max Subsystem) |
| Texture fill rate | 10.00 | of 969.9 (H100 SXM5 96 GB) |
| Floating-point performance | 80 gflops | of 16384 (Radeon Pro Duo) |
Size and compatibility
Information on GeForce 9650M 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 | large | |
| Interface | PCIe 2.0 x16 | |
| Supplementary power connectors | None |
Memory
Parameters of memory installed on GeForce 9650M GS: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Note that GPUs integrated into processors have no dedicated memory and use a shared part of system RAM instead.
| Memory type | GDDR2?, GDDR3 | |
| Maximum RAM amount | 512 MB | of 128 (Radeon Instinct MI250X) |
| Memory bus width | 128 Bit | of 8192 (Radeon Instinct MI250X) |
| Memory clock speed | 800 MHz | of 22400 (GeForce RTX 4080) |
| Memory bandwidth | 25.6 GB/s | of 3276 (Aldebaran) |
| Shared memory | - |
Video outputs and ports
Types and number of video connectors present on GeForce 9650M GS. As a rule, this section is relevant only for desktop reference graphics cards, since for notebook ones the availability of certain video outputs depends on the laptop model, while non-reference desktop models can (though not necessarily will) bear a different set of video ports.
| Display Connectors | No outputs |
API support
APIs supported by GeForce 9650M GS, sometimes including their particular versions.
| DirectX | 11.1 (10_0) | |
| Shader Model | 4.0 | |
| OpenGL | 3.3 | of 4.6 (GeForce GTX 1080 Mobile) |
| OpenCL | 1.1 | |
| Vulkan | N/A | |
| CUDA | 1.1 |
Benchmark performance
Synthetic benchmark performance of GeForce 9650M GS. The combined score is measured on a 0-100 point scale.
Combined synthetic benchmark score
This is our combined benchmark performance score. We are regularly improving our combining algorithms, but if you find some perceived inconsistencies, feel free to speak up in comments section, we usually fix problems quickly.
Passmark
This is probably the most ubiquitous benchmark, part of Passmark PerformanceTest suite. It gives the graphics card a thorough evaluation under various load, providing four separate benchmarks for Direct3D versions 9, 10, 11 and 12 (the last being done in 4K resolution if possible), and few more tests engaging DirectCompute capabilities.
Benchmark coverage: 24%
3DMark Vantage Performance
3DMark Vantage is an outdated DirectX 10 benchmark using 1280x1024 screen resolution. It taxes the graphics card with two scenes, one depicting a girl escaping some militarized base located within a sea cave, the other displaying a space fleet attack on a defenseless planet. It was discontinued in April 2017, and Time Spy benchmark is now recommended to be used instead.
Benchmark coverage: 16%
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Gaming performance
Let's see how good GeForce 9650M GS is for gaming. Particular gaming benchmark results are measured in frames per second. Comparisons with game system requirements are included, but remember that sometimes official requirements may reflect reality inaccurately.
Performance in popular games
Full HD
Medium Preset
| Call of Duty: Modern Warfare | 7−8 | |
| Red Dead Redemption 2 | 3−4 |
Full HD
High Preset
| Call of Duty: Modern Warfare | 7−8 | |
| Red Dead Redemption 2 | 3−4 |
1440p
High Preset
| Call of Duty: Modern Warfare | 1−2 | |
| Hitman 3 | 3−4 | |
| Horizon Zero Dawn | 1−2 | |
| Metro Exodus | 3−4 | |
| Red Dead Redemption 2 | 0−1 | |
| Shadow of the Tomb Raider | 1−2 |
1440p
Ultra Preset
| Far Cry 5 | 0−1 |
4K
High Preset
| Call of Duty: Modern Warfare | 0−1 | |
| Hitman 3 | 1−2 | |
| Horizon Zero Dawn | 2−3 | |
| Shadow of the Tomb Raider | 0−1 | |
| The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt | 1−2 |
4K
Ultra Preset
| Assassin's Creed Valhalla | 0−1 | |
| Far Cry New Dawn | 6−7 | |
| Watch Dogs: Legion | 0−1 |
Relative perfomance
Overall GeForce 9650M GS performance compared to nearest competitors among notebook video cards.
AMD equivalent
According to our data, the closest AMD alternative to GeForce 9650M GS is Radeon HD 7400G, which is slower by 1% and lower by 3 positions in our ranking.
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