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 0.27 GHz are supplied, and together with 128 Bit memory interface this creates a bandwidth of 8.512 GB/s.
Compatibility-wise, this is a single-slot graphics card attached via PCIe 1.0 x16 interface.
Primary details
Some basic facts about GeForce 6500: architecture, market segment, release date etc.
| Place in the 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 (19 years ago) |
Detailed specifications
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 MHz (Radeon RX 6500 XT) |
| Number of transistors | 75 million | of 208,000 million (B200 SXM 192 GB) |
| Manufacturing process technology | 110 nm | of 3 nm (Arc Graphics 140V) |
| Texture fill rate | 1.600 | of 2,554 (Radeon Instinct MI300X) |
| ROPs | 2 | of 192 (Radeon RX 7900 XTX) |
| TMUs | 4 | of 1280 (Data Center GPU Max NEXT) |
Form factor & 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 |
VRAM capacity and type
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 294912 (Radeon Instinct MI325X) |
| Memory bus width | 128 Bit | of 8192 Bit (Radeon Instinct MI250X) |
| Memory clock speed | 266 MHz | of 20000 (RTX 5000 Ada Generation Mobile) |
| Memory bandwidth | 8.512 GB/s | of 5,171 GB/s (Radeon Instinct MI300X) |
Connectivity and outputs
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 compatibility
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 RTX 4090) |
| 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. 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.
Send your test results of GeForce 6500.
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