GeForce 9500 GT and GT218 - video card comparison

GeForce 9500 GT

GT218

Architecture

Tesla (2006−2010)

Tesla 2.0 (2007−2013)

GPU code name

G96

GT218

Market segment

Desktop

Desktop

Release date

July 2008

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Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

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Supplementary power connectors

None

-

SLI options

+

-

Core clock speed

550 MHz

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CUDA cores

32

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Floating-point performance

89.6 gflops

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Manufacturing process technology

65 nm

40 nm

Number of transistors

314 million

260 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

32

16

Power consumption (TDP)

50 Watt

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Maximum GPU temperature

105 °C

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Texture fill rate

8.8 billion/sec

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Memory type

GDDR3

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Maximum RAM amount

1 GB

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Memory bus width

128 Bit

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Memory clock speed

800 (GDDR3) and 500 (DDR2) MHz

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Memory bandwidth

25.6 (GDDR3) and 16.0 (DDR2)

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Display Connectors

Dual Link DVISingle Link DVI

-

Multi monitor support

+

-

HDMI

+

-

Maximum VGA resolution

2048x1536

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Audio input for HDMI

S/PDIF

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DirectX

11.1 (10_0)

11.1 (10_1)

CUDA

+

1.2

OpenCL

1.1

1.1

OpenGL

2.1

3.3

Shader Model

4.0

4.1

Vulkan

N/A

N/A

PureVideo HD

-

VP4