Mobility Radeon and GeForce 6500 - video card comparison
Mobility Radeon
GeForce 6500
Architecture
Rage 6 (2000−2007)
Curie (2003−2013)
GPU code name
M6
NV44 A2
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
December 2001
October 2005
Interface
AGP 4x
PCIe 1.0 x16
Core clock speed
144 MHz
400 MHz
Manufacturing process technology
180 nm
110 nm
Number of transistors
30 million
75 million
Texture fill rate
0.43
1.600
Memory type
DDR
DDR2
Maximum RAM amount
16 MB
128 MB
Memory bus width
64 Bit
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
288 MHz
532 MHz
Memory bandwidth
2.304 GB/s
8.512 GB/s
Display Connectors
No outputs
1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
DirectX
7.0
9.0c (9_3)
OpenCL
N/A
N/A
OpenGL
1.3
2.1
Shader Model
-
3.0
Vulkan
N/A
N/A