NVIDIA GeForce 9700M GT: specs and benchmarks

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Summary

NVIDIA started GeForce 9700M GT sales 3 June 2008. This is a G9x architecture notebook card based on 65 nm manufacturing process and primarily aimed at office use. 512 MB of GDDR2, GDDR3 memory clocked at 800 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 45 Watt.

It provides poor gaming and benchmark performance at 0.54% of a leader's which is NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090.

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General info

Some basic facts about GeForce 9700M GT: architecture, market segment, release date etc.

Place in performance ranking1178
Place by popularitynot in top-100
ArchitectureG9x (2007−2010)
GPU code nameNB9E-GE
Market segmentLaptop
Release date3 June 2008 (15 years old)
Current price$310 of 168889 (A100 PCIe 80 GB)
Value for money

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

Technical specs

GeForce 9700M GT's specs such as number of shaders, GPU base clock, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of GeForce 9700M GT's performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider its benchmark and gaming test results.

Pipelines / CUDA cores32of 20480 (Data Center GPU Max NEXT)
CUDA cores32
Core clock speed625 MHzof 2610 (Radeon RX 6500 XT)
Number of transistors314 millionof 14400 (GeForce GTX 1070 SLI Mobile)
Manufacturing process technology65 nmof 4 (GeForce RTX 4080)
Power consumption (TDP)45 Wattof 2400 (Data Center GPU Max Subsystem)
Texture fill rate10.00of 969.9 (H100 SXM5 96 GB)
Floating-point performance99.2 gflopsof 16384 (Radeon Pro Duo)
Gigaflops148

Size and compatibility

Information on GeForce 9700M GT'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 sizemedium sized
InterfaceMXM-II

Memory

Parameters of memory installed on GeForce 9700M GT: 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 typeGDDR2, GDDR3
Maximum RAM amount512 MBof 192 (Radeon Instinct MI300X)
Memory bus width128 Bitof 19000 (GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB)
Memory clock speed800 MHzof 23000 (GeForce RTX 4080 SUPER)
Memory bandwidth25.6 GB/sof 3276 (Aldebaran)
Shared memory-

Video outputs and ports

Types and number of video connectors present on GeForce 9700M GT. 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 ConnectorsNo outputs

API support

APIs supported by GeForce 9700M GT, sometimes including their particular versions.

DirectX11.1 (10_0)
Shader Model4.0
OpenGL3.3of 4.6 (GeForce RTX 4090)
OpenCL1.1
VulkanN/A
CUDA+

Benchmark performance

Synthetic benchmark performance of GeForce 9700M GT. 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.

9700M GT 0.54

Passmark

This is the most ubiquitous GPU benchmark, part of Passmark PerformanceTest suite. It gives the graphics card a thorough evaluation under various types of 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: 25%

9700M GT 208

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: 17%

9700M GT 1750

Gaming performance

Let's see how good GeForce 9700M GT 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
Low Preset

Cyberpunk 2077 3−4

Full HD
Medium Preset

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 8−9
Cyberpunk 2077 3−4
Red Dead Redemption 2 2−3
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 6−7

Full HD
High Preset

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 8−9
Cyberpunk 2077 3−4
Metro Exodus 1−2
Red Dead Redemption 2 2−3
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 6−7
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt 3−4

Full HD
Ultra Preset

Cyberpunk 2077 3−4
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt 3−4

1440p
High Preset

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2−3
Hitman 3 3−4
Horizon Zero Dawn 8−9
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 4−5

1440p
Ultra Preset

Cyberpunk 2077 1−2
Far Cry 5 1−2
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt 1−2

4K
High Preset

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 1−2
Hitman 3 1−2
Horizon Zero Dawn 8−9

4K
Ultra Preset

Far Cry 5 3−4
Far Cry New Dawn 5−6

Relative perfomance

Overall GeForce 9700M GT performance compared to nearest competitors among notebook video cards.


AMD equivalent

According to our data, the closest AMD alternative to GeForce 9700M GT is Radeon HD 8250, which is faster by 4% and higher by 10 positions in our ranking.

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Recommended processors

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