NVIDIA GeForce GTX 870M vs NVIDIA GeForce 9600M GS

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 870M NVIDIA GeForce 9600M GS

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

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 870M 's Advantages

Released 5 years and 9 months late

Boost Clock967MHz

More VRAM (3GB vs 1GB)

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

1312 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce 9600M GS 's Advantages

Lower TDP (20W vs 100W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 870M +3666%

2.599 TFLOPS

GeForce 9600M GS

0.069 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 870M

VS

GeForce 9600M GS

Graphics Card

Mar 2014

Release Date

Jun 2008

GeForce 800M

Generation

GeForce 9M

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-B (3.0)

Bus Interface

MXM-II

Clock Speeds

941 MHz

Base Clock

-

967 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1250 MHz

Memory Clock

800 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

192bit

Memory Bus

128bit

120.0GB/s

Bandwidth

25.60GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

4

-

Compute Units

-

1344

Shading Units

32

112

TMUs

16

24

ROPs

8

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per SMX)

L1 Cache

-

384 KB

L2 Cache

32 KB

Theoretical Performance

27.08 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

3.440 GPixel/s

108.3 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

6.880 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

2.599 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

68.80 GFLOPS

108.3 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

GK104

GPU Name

G96C

N15E-GT-A2

GPU Variant

NB9P-GE2

Kepler

Architecture

Tesla

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

55 nm

3.54 billion

Transistors

0.314 billion

294 mm²

Die Size

121 mm²

Board Design

100W

TDP

20W

-

Suggested PSU

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Features

12 (11_0)

DirectX

11.1 (10_0)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3

3.0

OpenCL

1.1

Vulkan

N/A

3.0

CUDA

1.1

5.1

Shader Model

4.0

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