GeForce 6500 and Heathrow - video card comparison

GeForce 6500

Heathrow

Architecture

Curie (2003−2013)

GCN 1.0 (2012−2020)

GPU code name

NV44 A2

Heathrow

Market segment

Desktop

Desktop

Release date

October 2005

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Interface

PCIe 1.0 x16

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Core clock speed

400 MHz

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Manufacturing process technology

110 nm

28 nm

Number of transistors

75 million

1,500 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

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640

Texture fill rate

1.600

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Memory type

DDR2

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Maximum RAM amount

128 MB

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Memory bus width

128 Bit

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Memory clock speed

532 MHz

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Memory bandwidth

8.512 GB/s

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Display Connectors

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

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DirectX

9.0c (9_3)

12 (11_1)

OpenCL

N/A

2.1 (1.2)

OpenGL

2.1

4.6

Shader Model

3.0

6.5 (5.1)

Vulkan

N/A

1.2.170