NVIDIA GeForce 9500M G videocard review

NVIDIA GeForce 9500M G

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
38582
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, 1024x76838.61
Medium, 1024x76815.71

Doom 3 (2004)

Low, 640x48088.00
Medium, 640x48087.80
High, 800x60065.20
Ultra, 1024x76844.10

Quake 3 Arena - Timedemo (1999)

High, 1024x768158.40

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