GeForce 6500 and Whistler - video card comparison

GeForce 6500

Whistler

Architecture

Curie (2003−2013)

TeraScale 2 (2009−2015)

GPU code name

NV44 A2

Whistler

Market segment

Desktop

Desktop

Release date

October 2005

-

Interface

PCIe 1.0 x16

-

Core clock speed

400 MHz

-

Manufacturing process technology

110 nm

40 nm

Number of transistors

75 million

716 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

-

480

Texture fill rate

1.600

-

Memory type

DDR2

-

Maximum RAM amount

128 MB

-

Memory bus width

128 Bit

-

Memory clock speed

532 MHz

-

Memory bandwidth

8.512 GB/s

-

Display Connectors

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

-

DirectX

9.0c (9_3)

11.2 (11_0)

OpenCL

N/A

1.2

OpenGL

2.1

4.4

Shader Model

3.0

5.0

Vulkan

N/A

N/A