NVIDIA GeForce 6500: specs and benchmarks
Summary
NVIDIA started GeForce 6500 sales 1 October 2005. This is a desktop graphics card based on a Curie architecture and made with 110 nm manufacturing process. It is primarily aimed at gamer market. 128 MB of DDR2 memory clocked at 0.53 GHz are supplied, and together with 128 Bit memory interface this creates a bandwidth of 8.512 GB/s.
Compatibility-wise, this is single-slot card attached via PCIe 1.0 x16 interface.
We have no data on GeForce 6500 benchmark results.
General info
Some basic facts about GeForce 6500: architecture, market segment, release date etc.
| Place in performance ranking | not rated | |
| Place by popularity | not in top-100 | |
| Architecture | Curie (2003−2013) | |
| GPU code name | NV44 A2 | |
| Market segment | Desktop | |
| Release date | 1 October 2005 (18 years old) | |
| Current price | $343 | of 168889 (A100 PCIe 80 GB) |
Technical specs
GeForce 6500's specs such as number of shaders, GPU base clock, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of GeForce 6500's performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider its benchmark and gaming test results.
| Core clock speed | 400 MHz | of 2610 (Radeon RX 6500 XT) |
| Number of transistors | 75 million | of 14400 (GeForce GTX 1080 SLI Mobile) |
| Manufacturing process technology | 110 nm | of 4 (GeForce RTX 4080) |
| Texture fill rate | 1.600 | of 969.9 (H100 SXM5 96 GB) |
Size and compatibility
This section provides details about the physical dimensions of GeForce 6500 and its compatibility with other computer components. This information is useful when selecting a computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards, it includes details about the interface and bus (for motherboard compatibility) and additional power connectors (for power supply compatibility).
| Interface | PCIe 1.0 x16 | |
| Width | 1-slot |
Memory
Parameters of memory installed on GeForce 6500: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Note that GPUs integrated into processors have no dedicated memory and use a shared part of system RAM instead.
| Memory type | DDR2 | |
| Maximum RAM amount | 128 MB | of 192 (Radeon Instinct MI300X) |
| Memory bus width | 128 Bit | of 19000 (GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB) |
| Memory clock speed | 532 MHz | of 23000 (GeForce RTX 4080 SUPER) |
| Memory bandwidth | 8.512 GB/s | of 3276 (Aldebaran) |
Video outputs and ports
Types and number of video connectors present on GeForce 6500. As a rule, this section is relevant only for desktop reference graphics cards, since for notebook ones the availability of certain video outputs depends on the laptop model, while non-reference desktop models can (though not necessarily will) bear a different set of video ports.
| Display Connectors | 1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video |
API support
APIs supported by GeForce 6500, sometimes including their particular versions.
| DirectX | 9.0c (9_3) | |
| Shader Model | 3.0 | |
| OpenGL | 2.1 | of 4.6 (GeForce GTX 1080 Mobile) |
| OpenCL | N/A | |
| Vulkan | N/A |
Benchmark performance
Synthetic benchmark performance of GeForce 6500. The combined score is measured on a 0-100 point scale.
Passmark
This is the most ubiquitous GPU benchmark, part of Passmark PerformanceTest suite. It gives the graphics card a thorough evaluation under various types of load, providing four separate benchmarks for Direct3D versions 9, 10, 11 and 12 (the last being done in 4K resolution if possible), and few more tests engaging DirectCompute capabilities.
Benchmark coverage: 25%
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Recommended processors
These processors are most commonly used with GeForce 6500 according to our statistics.
