NVIDIA GeForce 9500M GS videocard review

NVIDIA GeForce 9500M GS

GeForce 9500M GS videocard released by NVIDIA; release date: 1 February 2008. The videocard is designed for laptop-computers and based on Tesla microarchitecture codenamed G84.

Core clock speed - 950 MHz. Texture fill rate - 7.6 GTexel / s. Pipelines - 32. Floating-point performance - 60.8 gflops. Manufacturing process technology - 80 nm. Transistors count - 289 million. Power consumption (TDP) - 20 Watt.

Memory type: GDDR2 / GDDR3. Maximum RAM amount - 512 MB. Memory bus width - 128 Bit. Memory clock speed - 700 MHz. Memory bandwidth - 22.4 GB / s. Shared memory - 0.

Benchmarks

PassMark
G3D Mark
Top 1 GPU
This GPU
38588
134
PassMark
G2D Mark
Top 1 GPU
This GPU
1295
59
GFXBench 4.0
T-Rex
Top 1 GPU
This GPU
69225 Frames
1053 Frames
GFXBench 4.0
T-Rex
Top 1 GPU
This GPU
69225.000 Fps
1053.000 Fps
Name Value
PassMark - G3D Mark 134
PassMark - G2D Mark 59
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex 1053 Frames
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex 1053.000 Fps

Games performance

Crysis - GPU Benchmark (2007)

Low, 1024x76848.90
Medium, 1024x76818.60
High, 1024x76810.30

World in Conflict - Benchmark (2007)

Medium, 1024x76828.50
High, 1024x76815.00

Doom 3 (2004)

Low, 640x480159.90
Medium, 640x480159.90
High, 800x600127.90
Ultra, 1024x76884.70

Quake 3 Arena - Timedemo (1999)

High, 1024x768477.80

Specifications (specs)

Essentials

Architecture Tesla
Code name G84
Launch date 1 February 2008
Place in performance rating 1604
Type Laptop

Technical info

Core clock speed 950 MHz
CUDA cores 32
Floating-point performance 60.8 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 80 nm
Pipelines 32
Texture fill rate 7.6 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 20 Watt
Transistor count 289 million

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors No outputs

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Interface PCIe 1.0 x16
Laptop size medium sized

API support

DirectX 10.0
OpenGL 3.3

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 512 MB
Memory bandwidth 22.4 GB / s
Memory bus width 128 Bit
Memory clock speed 700 MHz
Memory type GDDR2 / GDDR3
Shared memory 0