GeForce 6500 and GeForce FX Go5250 - video card comparison
GeForce 6500
GeForce FX Go5250
Architecture
Curie (2003−2013)
Rankine (2003−2005)
GPU code name
NV44 A2
NV34 A1
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
October 2005
March 2003
Interface
PCIe 1.0 x16
AGP 8x
Core clock speed
400 MHz
250 MHz
Manufacturing process technology
110 nm
150 nm
Number of transistors
75 million
45 million
Texture fill rate
1.600
1.000
Memory type
DDR2
DDR
Maximum RAM amount
128 MB
64 MB
Memory bus width
128 Bit
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
532 MHz
500 MHz
Memory bandwidth
8.512 GB/s
8 GB/s
Display Connectors
1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
No outputs
DirectX
9.0c (9_3)
9.0a
OpenCL
N/A
N/A
OpenGL
2.1
1.5 (2.1)
Shader Model
3.0
-
Vulkan
N/A
N/A