
GeForce 6500 and Radeon 9250 - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score GeForce 6500 vs Radeon 9250
GeForce 6500
39
Radeon 9250
2
GeForce 6500
Radeon 9250
Architecture
Curie (2003−2013)
Rage 7 (2001−2006)
GPU code name
NV44 A2
RV280
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
October 2005
March 2004
Interface
PCIe 1.0 x16
AGP 8x
Supplementary power connectors
-
None
Core clock speed
400 MHz
240 MHz
Manufacturing process technology
110 nm
150 nm
Number of transistors
75 million
36 million
Texture fill rate
1.600
0.96
Memory type
DDR2
DDR
Maximum RAM amount
128 MB
64 MB
Memory bus width
128 Bit
64 Bit
Memory clock speed
532 MHz
400 MHz
Memory bandwidth
8.512 GB/s
3.2 GB/s
Display Connectors
1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
DirectX
9.0c (9_3)
8.1
OpenCL
N/A
N/A
OpenGL
2.1
1.4
Shader Model
3.0
-
Vulkan
N/A
N/A