GeForce 9500 GT Rev. 2 vs Iris Graphics 540

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Primary details

GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.

Place in the ranking738not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency15.10no data
ArchitectureGeneration 9.0 (2015−2016)Tesla (2006−2010)
GPU code nameSkylake GT3eG96B
Market segmentDesktopDesktop
Release date1 September 2015 (9 years ago)29 July 2008 (16 years ago)

Detailed specifications

General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores38432
Core clock speed300 MHz600 MHz
Boost clock speed1000 MHzno data
Number of transistors189 million314 million
Manufacturing process technology14 nm+65 nm
Power consumption (TDP)15 Watt50 Watt
Texture fill rate48.009.600
Floating-point processing power0.768 TFLOPS0.096 TFLOPS
ROPs68
TMUs4816

Form factor & compatibility

Information on compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

InterfaceRing BusPCIe 2.0 x16
Lengthno data175 mm
WidthIGP1-slot
Supplementary power connectorsno dataNone

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory typeSystem SharedGDDR3
Maximum RAM amountSystem Shared512 MB
Memory bus widthSystem Shared128 Bit
Memory clock speedSystem Shared900 MHz
Memory bandwidthno data28.8 GB/s
Shared memory+-

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on the reviewed GPUs. As a rule, data in this section is precise only for desktop reference ones (so-called Founders Edition for NVIDIA chips). OEM manufacturers may change the number and type of output ports, while for notebook cards availability of certain video outputs ports depends on the laptop model rather than on the card itself.

Display ConnectorsPortable Device Dependent2x DVI, 1x S-Video

Supported technologies

Supported technological solutions. This information will prove useful if you need some particular technology for your purposes.

Quick Sync+no data

API compatibility

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX12 (12_1)11.1 (10_0)
Shader Model6.44.0
OpenGL4.63.3
OpenCL3.01.1
Vulkan1.3N/A
CUDA-1.1

Pros & cons summary


Recency 1 September 2015 29 July 2008
Chip lithography 14 nm 65 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 15 Watt 50 Watt

Iris Graphics 540 has an age advantage of 7 years, a 364.3% more advanced lithography process, and 233.3% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Iris Graphics 540 and GeForce 9500 GT Rev. 2. We've got no test results to judge.


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Intel Iris Graphics 540
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