NVIDIA GeForce 6500 videocard review

NVIDIA GeForce 6500

GeForce 6500 videocard released by NVIDIA; release date: 1 October 2005. The videocard is designed for desktop-computers and based on Curie microarchitecture codenamed NV44 A2.

Core clock speed - 400 MHz. Texture fill rate - 1.6 GTexel / s. Manufacturing process technology - 110 nm. Transistors count - 75 million.

Memory type: DDR2. Maximum RAM amount - 128 MB. Memory bus width - 128 Bit. Memory clock speed - 666 MHz. Memory bandwidth - 10.66 GB / s.

Benchmarks

PassMark
G3D Mark
Top 1 GPU
This GPU
38582
38
PassMark
G2D Mark
Top 1 GPU
This GPU
1295
300
Name Value
PassMark - G3D Mark 38
PassMark - G2D Mark 300

Specifications (specs)

Essentials

Architecture Curie
Code name NV44 A2
Launch date 1 October 2005
Place in performance rating 545
Type Desktop

Technical info

Core clock speed 400 MHz
Manufacturing process technology 110 nm
Texture fill rate 1.6 GTexel / s
Transistor count 75 million

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors 1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Interface PCIe 1.0 x16

API support

DirectX 9.0c
OpenGL 2.1

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 128 MB
Memory bandwidth 10.66 GB / s
Memory bus width 128 Bit
Memory clock speed 666 MHz
Memory type DDR2