Cayman and GeForce 6500 - video card comparison

Cayman

GeForce 6500

Architecture

TeraScale 3 (2010−2013)

Curie (2003−2013)

GPU code name

Cayman

NV44 A2

Market segment

Desktop

Desktop

Release date

-

October 2005

Interface

-

PCIe 1.0 x16

Core clock speed

-

400 MHz

Manufacturing process technology

40 nm

110 nm

Number of transistors

2,640 million

75 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

1536

-

Texture fill rate

-

1.600

Memory type

-

DDR2

Maximum RAM amount

-

128 MB

Memory bus width

-

128 Bit

Memory clock speed

-

532 MHz

Memory bandwidth

-

8.512 GB/s

Display Connectors

-

1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video

DirectX

11.2 (11_0)

9.0c (9_3)

OpenCL

1.2

N/A

OpenGL

4.4

2.1

Shader Model

5.0

3.0

Vulkan

N/A

N/A