NVIDIA GeForce 8500 GT vs NVIDIA GeForce 9650M GT

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Graphics Processor

GPU model G86 G96C
GPU variant G86-300-A2 NB9P-GT
Architecture Tesla Tesla
Foundry TSMC TSMC
Manufacturing process 80 nm 55 nm
Number of transistors 210 million 314 million
Die size 127 mm² 121 mm²

Graphics Card

Release date Apr 17th, 2007
Generation GeForce 8
Production End-of-life
Launch price 129 USD
Interface PCIe 1.0 x16
Reviews 33 in our database
Predecessor GeForce 7 PCIe
Successor GeForce 9

Clocks

GPU clock 459 MHz 550 MHz
Shader clock 918 MHz 1325 MHz
Memory clock 400 MHz 800 Mbps effective 800 MHz 1600 Mbps effective

Memory Configuration

Memory size 256 MB 1024 MB
Memory type GDDR3 GDDR3
Memory bus width 128 bit 128 bit
Bandwidth 12.80 GB/s 25.60 GB/s

Render Configuration

Shading units 16 32
TMUs 8 16
ROPs 4 8
SM count 2 4
Cache L2 32 KB 32 KB

Performance

Pixel rate 1.836 GPixel/s 4.400 GPixel/s
Texture rate 3.672 GTexel/s 8.800 GTexel/s
FP32 (float) performance 29.38 GFLOPS 84.80 GFLOPS

Dimensions & Outputs

Slot width Single-slot MXM Module
Length 229 mm 9 inches
TDP 30 W 23 W
Suggested PSU 200 W
Outputs 1x DVI1x VGA1x S-Video No outputs
Power connectors None
Board number P403

API Support & Features

DirectX 11.1 (10_0) 11.1 (10_0)
OpenGL 3.3 3.3
OpenCL 1.1 1.1
Vulkan
CUDA 1.1 1.1
Shader model 4.0 4.0

Other Features

Mobile graphics

Release date Aug 19th, 2008
Generation GeForce 9M (9600M)
Production End-of-life
Interface MXM-II
Predecessor GeForce 8M
Successor GeForce 100M

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