NVIDIA GeForce 9650M GS
The 9650M is a higher clocked 9500M GS and the successor of the 8700M GT (same chip but other spinning). Therefore, the performance should be on par with the 8700M GT.
The graphic card offers DirectX 10 support like the predecessor. However, the performance is not sufficient to represent the effects of exigent games like Crysis or World in Conflict fluently. (because they are combined with highest detail level). Older DirectX 9 games should run fluently with high details.
A particularity of the graphic card are the "Unified Shaders" or ALUs (arithmetic logical units). There are no dedicated pixel- or vertex shaders any more but 32 so claled stream processors do the graphic work (in former days that was the job of the pixel and vertex shaders). The advantage is that theoretically there is no idle time of the ALUs. The stream processors of NVIDIA are 1-dimensional (1D) and are able to make one skalar operation with one MADD- (addition and multiplication) and MUL-operation (multiplication). Furthermore, NVIDIA cloks the shader-ALUs somewhat higher than the remaining chip.
Due to the PureVideo HD engine, the 9650M GS is able to accellerate the decoding of HD videos in H.264, VC-1, MPEG2, and WMV9.
| Manufacturer | NVIDIA |
| Series | GeForce 9000M |
| Codename | |
| Pipelines | 32 - unified |
| Core Speed * | 625 MHz |
| Shader Speed * | 1250 MHz |
| Memory Speed * | 800 MHz |
| Memory Bus Width | 128 Bit |
| Memory Type | GDDR2?, GDDR3 |
| Max. Amount of Memory | 512 MB |
| Shared Memory | no |
| DirectX | DirectX 10, Shader 3.0 |
| Current Consumption | 29 Watt |
| Transistors | 289 Million |
| technology | 80 nm |
| Features | MXM III Slot, 1250 MHz shader clock, OpenGL 2.1 support, dual-link DVI (if supported by the notebook). |
| Notebook Size | large |
| Date of Announcement | 13.03.2008 |
| Link to Manufacturer Page | http://www.nvidia.com/object/geforce_965... |
benchmarks
3DMark 2001: - Standard 1024x768
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min: 19924, avg: 19924, max: 19924 Points ... More Details
3DMark 03: - Standard 1024x768
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min: 15929, avg: 15929, max: 15929 Points ... More Details
3DMark 05: - Standard 1024x768
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min: 9212, avg: 9212, max: 9212 Points ... More Details
3DMark 06:
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min: 4830, avg: 4830, max: 4830 Points ... More Details
F.E.A.R.: - GPU min, CPU min 640x480
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min: 120, avg: 120, max: 120 fps ... More Details
F.E.A.R.: - GPU medium, CPU medium 800x600
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min: 162, avg: 162, max: 162 fps ... More Details
F.E.A.R.: - GPU: max, CPU: max 1024x768
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min: 27, avg: 27, max: 27 fps ... More Details
Doom 3: - Low 640x480
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min: 165.2, avg: 165, max: 165.2 fps ... More Details
Doom 3: - Medium 800x600
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min: 160.4, avg: 160, max: 160.4 fps ... More Details
Doom 3: - High 800x600
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min: 146.5, avg: 147, max: 146.5 fps ... More Details
Doom 3: - Ultra 1024x768
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min: 123.7, avg: 124, max: 123.7 fps ... More Details
- Range of benchmark values for this graphics card - Average benchmark values for this graphics cardBased on 11 benchmarks
| 3DMark 05in comparison | ||
| Intel Graphics Media Accelerator (GMA) 900 (min) | 234 | |
| ... | ||
| NVIDIA GeForce 9600M GT | 8852 | |
| NVIDIA Quadro NVS 320M | 9075 | |
| NVIDIA GeForce 8700M GT | 9102 | |
| NVIDIA GeForce 9650M GS | 9212 | |
| NVIDIA Quadro FX 3500M | 9295 | |
| NVIDIA GeForce Go 7950 GTX | 9700 | |
| NVIDIA Quadro FX 1600M | 9963 | |
| ... | ||
| ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3870 X2 (max) | 20115 | |
Games performance
The following benchmark tests were conducted with our review sample of the Acer Aspire 8920G. Other configurations and notebooks can show varying results.
Crysis : 1024x768, med: 25-27 fps -> playable (for fully playable reduce details tolow)
Unreal Tournament 3: 1280x800, details 3/5: 44-60 fps -> fully playable
Call of Duty 4: 1280x800, med details: 35-50 fps -> fully playable
Supreme Commander (Gameplay, Multiplayer 2vs2): 1024x768, med: 5-30 fps ->playable
Race Driver Grid: 1024x768, med: 25-35 fps -> fully playable
Die obigen Spieletests beweisen, das die 9650M GS für aktuelle Spiele (Stand 04.2008) ausreichend Leistung zur Verfügung stellt (einige fordernde Spiele jedoch nicht in höchster Auflösung darstellen kann). Elder DirectX 9 games should be fully playable with high details and high resolutions.
- min - max framerates of UT3
- and Call of Duty 4
Notebook reviews with NVIDIA GeForce 9650M GS graphics card
Acer Aspire 8920G (Intel Core 2 Duo T9300, 18.4")
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