GeForce 9500 GT: specs and benchmarks

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Aggregate performance score

GeForce 9500 GT provides poor gaming and benchmark performance at 0.41% of a leader's which is RTX PRO 5000 Blackwell.

Summary

NVIDIA started GeForce 9500 GT sales 29 July 2008 at a recommended price of $85.99. This is a Tesla architecture desktop card based on 65 nm manufacturing process and primarily aimed at office use. 1 GB of GDDR3 memory clocked at 800 (GDDR3) and 500 (DDR2) MHz are supplied, and together with 128 Bit memory interface this creates a bandwidth of 25.6 (GDDR3) and 16.0 (DDR2).

Compatibility-wise, this is a single-slot graphics card attached via PCIe 2.0 x16 interface. Its manufacturer default version has a length of 175 mm. No additional power connector is required, and power consumption is at 50 Watt.

Primary details

Some basic facts about GeForce 9500 GT: architecture, market segment, release date etc.

Place in the ranking1294
Place by popularitynot in top-100
Power efficiency0.66of 100.00 (Radeon 890M)
ArchitectureTesla (2006−2010)
GPU code nameG96
Market segmentDesktop
Release date29 July 2008 (17 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$85.99 of 14,999 (Quadro Plex 7000)

Detailed specifications

GeForce 9500 GT's specs such as number of shaders, GPU base clock, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of GeForce 9500 GT's performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider its benchmark and gaming test results.

Pipelines / CUDA cores32of 960 (GeForce GTX 660)
Core clock speed550 MHzof 980 (GeForce GT 755M SLI)
Number of transistors314 millionof 100,000 million (Data Center GPU Max 1100)
Manufacturing process technology65 nmof 0.003 MB (Arc Graphics 140V)
Power consumption (TDP)50 Wattof 235 (FirePro S9150)
Maximum GPU temperature105 °C
Texture fill rate9.600of 1,968.0 (RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell Server)
Floating-point processing power0.096 TFLOPSof 126 (RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell Server)
ROPs8of 512 (Moore Threads MTT S4000)
TMUs16of 896 (Data Center GPU Max 1350)
L2 Cache32 KBof 408 MB (Data Center GPU Max 1350)

Form factor & compatibility

This section provides details about the physical dimensions of GeForce 9500 GT 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).

InterfacePCIe 2.0 x16
Length175 mm
Height4.376" (11.1 cm)
Width1-slot
Supplementary power connectorsNone
SLI options+

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of memory installed on GeForce 9500 GT: 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 typeGDDR3
Maximum RAM amount1 GBof 288 GB (Radeon Instinct MI325X)
Memory bus width128 Bitof 384 (GeForce GTX 980 Ti)
Memory clock speed800 (GDDR3) and 500 (DDR2) MHzof 16384000 MB (GeForce RTX 4050 Mobile)
Memory bandwidth25.6 (GDDR3) and 16.0 (DDR2)of 983040 MB (GeForce RTX 5080)

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on GeForce 9500 GT. 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 ConnectorsDual Link DVISingle Link DVI
Multi monitor support+
HDMI+
Maximum VGA resolution2048x1536
Audio input for HDMIS/PDIF

API and SDK support

APIs supported by GeForce 9500 GT, sometimes including their particular versions.

DirectX11.1 (10_0)
Shader Model4.0
OpenGL2.1of 4.6 (RTX PRO 5000 Blackwell)
OpenCL1.1
VulkanN/A
CUDA+

Benchmark performance

Synthetic benchmark performance of GeForce 9500 GT. The combined score is measured on a 0-100 point scale.


Combined synthetic benchmark score

This is our combined benchmark score.

9500 GT
0.41

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.

9500 GT 183
Samples: 3488

Gaming performance

Let's see how good GeForce 9500 GT is for gaming. Particular gaming benchmark results are measured in frames per second. Comparisons with game system requirements are included, but remember that sometimes official requirements may reflect reality inaccurately.

Closest competitors

GeForce 9500 GT's performance relative to its closest rivals among desktop graphics cards.


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AMD equivalent

According to our data, the closest AMD alternative to GeForce 9500 GT is Radeon HD 6230, which is slower by 2% and lower by 4 positions in our ranking.

Here are some closest AMD rivals to GeForce 9500 GT:

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