GeForce 6500 and Radeon 9500 - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score GeForce 6500 vs Radeon 9500
GeForce 6500
39
Radeon 9500
37
GeForce 6500
Radeon 9500
Architecture
Curie (2003−2013)
Rage 8 (2002−2006)
GPU code name
NV44 A2
R300
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
October 2005
March 2003
Interface
PCIe 1.0 x16
AGP 8x
Supplementary power connectors
-
None
Core clock speed
400 MHz
275 MHz
Manufacturing process technology
110 nm
150 nm
Number of transistors
75 million
110 million
Power consumption (TDP)
-
12 Watt
Texture fill rate
1.600
1.100
Memory type
DDR2
DDR
Maximum RAM amount
128 MB
64 MB
Memory bus width
128 Bit
256 Bit
Memory clock speed
532 MHz
540 MHz
Memory bandwidth
8.512 GB/s
17.28 GB/s
Display Connectors
1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
DirectX
9.0c (9_3)
9.0 (9_0)
OpenCL
N/A
N/A
OpenGL
2.1
2.0
Shader Model
3.0
-
Vulkan
N/A
N/A