NVIDIA GeForce 9500M G videocard review

GeForce 9500M G videocard released by NVIDIA; release date: 3 June 2008. The videocard is designed for laptop-computers and based on Tesla microarchitecture codenamed G96.

Core clock speed - 500 MHz. Texture fill rate - 4 GTexel / s. Pipelines - 16. Floating-point performance - 40 gflops. Manufacturing process technology - 65 nm. Transistors count - 314 million. Power consumption (TDP) - 20 Watt.

Memory type: GDDR2, GDDR3. Maximum RAM amount - 512 MB. Memory bus width - 128 Bit. Memory clock speed - 1600 MHz. Memory bandwidth - 25.6 GB / s. Shared memory - 0.

Benchmarks

PassMark
G3D Mark

Top 1 GPU

This GPU

38588

122

PassMark
G2D Mark

Top 1 GPU

This GPU

1295

172

Name	Value
PassMark - G3D Mark	122
PassMark - G2D Mark	172

Games performance

Crysis - GPU Benchmark (2007)

Low, 1024x768	38.61
Medium, 1024x768	15.71

Doom 3 (2004)

Low, 640x480	88.00
Medium, 640x480	87.80
High, 800x600	65.20
Ultra, 1024x768	44.10

Quake 3 Arena - Timedemo (1999)

High, 1024x768

158.40

Specifications (specs)

Essentials
Architecture	Tesla
Code name	G96
Launch date	3 June 2008
Place in performance rating	983
Type	Laptop
Technical info
Core clock speed	500 MHz
CUDA cores	16
Floating-point performance	40 gflops
Gigaflops	60
Manufacturing process technology	65 nm
Pipelines	16
Texture fill rate	4 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	20 Watt
Transistor count	314 million

Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 2.0 x16
Laptop size	medium sized
API support
DirectX	10.0
OpenGL	3.3
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	512 MB
Memory bandwidth	25.6 GB / s
Memory bus width	128 Bit
Memory clock speed	1600 MHz
Memory type	GDDR2, GDDR3
Shared memory	0
Technologies
CUDA
PCI-E 2.0