GeForce GT 650M vs GeForce 9600 GT
Summary
Reasons to consider GeForce GT 650M |
| 50 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the GeForce 9600 GT . |
| This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support. |
| Supports PhysX |
| Supports G-Sync |
| Supports ShadowPlay (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty) |
| Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Kepler), there are less performance optimizations for current games and applications |
Reasons to consider GeForce 9600 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| Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Tesla), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications |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 |
HWBench recommends GeForce 9600 GT
Based on theoretical specifications.
Core Configuration
| GeForce GT 650M | | GeForce 9600 GT | |
|---|
| GPU Name | GK107 (N13P-GT-A2) | vs | G94 (G94-300-A1) |
| Fab Process | 28 nm | vs | 65 nm |
| Die Size | 118 mm² | vs | 240 mm² |
| Transistors | 1,270 million | vs | 505 million |
| Shaders | 384 | vs | 64 |
| Compute Units | 2 | vs | 4 |
| Core clock | 850 MHz | vs | 650 MHz |
| ROPs | 16 | vs | 16 |
| TMUs | 32 | vs | 32 |
Memory Configuration
| GeForce GT 650M | | GeForce 9600 GT | |
|---|
| Memory Type | DDR3 | vs | GDDR3 |
| Bus Width | 128 bit | vs | 256 bit |
| Memory Speed | 900 MHz
1800 MHz effective | vs | 900 MHz
1800 MHz effective |
| Memory Size | 1024 Mb | vs | 512 Mb |
Additional details
| GeForce GT 650M | | GeForce 9600 GT | |
|---|
| TDP | 45 watts | vs | 95 watts |
| Release Date | 22 Mar 2012 | vs | 21 Feb 2008 |
GeForce GT 650M
6.80 GP/s
GeForce 9600 GT
10.40 GP/s
GigaPixels - higher is better
GeForce GT 650M
27.20 GT/s
GeForce 9600 GT
20.80 GT/s
GigaTexels - higher is better
GeForce GT 650M
28.80 GB/s
GeForce 9600 GT
57.60 GB/s
GB/s - higher is better
GeForce GT 650M
652.80 GFLOPs
GeForce 9600 GT
208.00 GFLOPs
GFLOPs - higher is better