NVIDIA GeForce 9600M GS vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 870M

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NVIDIA GeForce 9600M GS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 870M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce 9600M GS and 3GB VRAM GeForce GTX 870M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce 9600M GS 's Advantages

Lower TDP (20W vs 100W)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 870M 's Advantages

Released 5 years and 9 months late

Boost Clock967MHz

More VRAM (3GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (120.0GB/s vs 25.60GB/s)

1312 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce 9600M GS

0.069 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 870M +3666%

2.599 TFLOPS

GeForce 9600M GS

VS

GeForce GTX 870M

Graphics Card

Jun 2008

Release Date

Mar 2014

GeForce 9M

Generation

GeForce 800M

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-II

Bus Interface

MXM-B (3.0)

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

941 MHz

-

Boost Clock

967 MHz

800 MHz

Memory Clock

1250 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

3GB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

192bit

25.60GB/s

Bandwidth

120.0GB/s

Render Config

-

4

SM Count

-

32

Shading Units

1344

16

TMUs

112

8

ROPs

24

-

L1 Cache

16 KB (per SMX)

32 KB

L2 Cache

384 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

3.440 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

27.08 GPixel/s

6.880 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

108.3 GTexel/s

-

68.80 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.599 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

108.3 GFLOPS

Board Design

20W

TDP

100W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

-

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

G96C

GPU Name

GK104

NB9P-GE2

GPU Variant

N15E-GT-A2

Tesla

Architecture

Kepler

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

55 nm

Process Size

28 nm

0.314 billion

Transistors

3.54 billion

121 mm²

Die Size

294 mm²

Graphics Features

11.1 (10_0)

DirectX

12 (11_0)

3.3

OpenGL

4.6

1.1

OpenCL

3.0

N/A

Vulkan

1.1

CUDA

3.0

4.0

Shader Model

5.1

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