GeForce 610M vs GeForce 9500 GT

GeForce 610M
Memory: 1024Mb DDR3MOBILE
Release date: 1 Dec 2011
GeForce 610M
GeForce 9500 GT
Memory: 512Mb GDDR3DESKTOP
Release date: 29 Jul 2008
GeForce 9500 GT

Summary

Reasons to consider GeForce 610M

This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support.
Supports PhysX
Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Fermi), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Reasons to consider GeForce 9500 GT

Higher theoretical gaming performance, based on specifications.
Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Tesla), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications
PhysX support, however PhysX performance on newest games may be poor

GeForce 9500 GT

HWBench recommends GeForce 9500 GT

Based on theoretical specifications.


Specifications

Core Configuration

GeForce 610MGeForce 9500 GT
GPU NameGF119 (N13M-GE)vsG96C ()
Fab Process40 nmvs55 nm
Die Size79 mm²vs121 mm²
Transistors292 millionvs314 million
Shaders48vs32
Compute Units1vs2
Core clock738 MHzvs550 MHz
ROPs4vs8
TMUs8vs16

Memory Configuration

GeForce 610MGeForce 9500 GT
Memory TypeDDR3vsGDDR3
Bus Width64 bitvs128 bit
Memory Speed900 MHz
1800 MHz effective
vs800 MHz
1600 MHz effective
Memory Size1024 Mbvs512 Mb

Additional details

GeForce 610MGeForce 9500 GT
TDP12 wattsvs50 watts
Release Date1 Dec 2011vs29 Jul 2008

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • GeForce 610M
    1.47 GP/s
  • GeForce 9500 GT
    4.40 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • GeForce 610M
    5.90 GT/s
  • GeForce 9500 GT
    8.80 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • GeForce 610M
    14.40 GB/s
  • GeForce 9500 GT
    25.60 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • GeForce 610M
    141.70 GFLOPs
  • GeForce 9500 GT
    89.60 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better