Ellesmere and GeForce 6500 - video card comparison

Ellesmere

GeForce 6500

Architecture

GCN 4.0 (2016−2020)

Curie (2003−2013)

GPU code name

Ellesmere

NV44 A2

Market segment

Desktop

Desktop

Release date

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October 2005

Interface

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PCIe 1.0 x16

Core clock speed

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400 MHz

Manufacturing process technology

14 nm

110 nm

Number of transistors

5,700 million

75 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

2304

-

Texture fill rate

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1.600

Memory type

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DDR2

Maximum RAM amount

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128 MB

Memory bus width

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128 Bit

Memory clock speed

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532 MHz

Memory bandwidth

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8.512 GB/s

Display Connectors

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

DirectX

12 (12_0)

9.0c (9_3)

OpenCL

2.1

N/A

OpenGL

4.6

2.1

Shader Model

6.7

3.0

Vulkan

1.3

N/A