GeForce 9600M GS vs NVS 3100M
We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce 9600M GS and 512MB VRAM NVS 3100M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
GeForce 9600M GS 's Advantages
More VRAM (1024GB vs 512GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (25.60GB/s vs 12.64GB/s)
16 additional rendering cores
NVS 3100M 's Advantages
Released 1 years and 7 months late
Lower TDP (14W vs 20W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce 9600M GS
+46%
69
NVS 3100M
47
Graphics Card
Jun 2008
Release Date
Jan 2010
GeForce 9M
Generation
NVS Mobile
Mobile
Type
Mobile
MXM-II
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
800 MHz
Memory Clock
790 MHz
Memory
1024MB
Memory Size
512MB
GDDR3
Memory Type
GDDR3
128bit
Memory Bus
64bit
25.60GB/s
Bandwidth
12.64GB/s
Render Config
4
SM Count
2
32
Shading Units
16
16
TMUs
8
8
ROPs
4
32 KB
L2 Cache
32 KB
Theoretical Performance
3.440 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
2.424 GPixel/s
6.880 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
4.848 GTexel/s
68.80 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
46.98 GFLOPS
Board Design
20W
TDP
14W
No outputs
Outputs
No outputs
Graphics Processor
G96C
GPU Name
GT218
NB9P-GE2
GPU Variant
N10M-NS
Tesla
Architecture
Tesla 2.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
55 nm
Process Size
40 nm
0.314 billion
Transistors
0.26 billion
121 mm²
Die Size
57 mm²
Graphics Features
11.1 (10_0)
DirectX
11.1 (10_1)
3.3
OpenGL
3.3
1.1
OpenCL
1.1
N/A
Vulkan
N/A
1.1
CUDA
1.2
4.0
Shader Model
4.1
