Quadro FX 1500 and GeForce 9500M GE - video card comparison

Quadro FX 1500

GeForce 9500M GE

Architecture

Curie (2003−2013)

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GPU code name

G71

MCP79Mx + NB9M

Market segment

Workstation

Laptop

Release date

April 2006

January 2008

Interface

PCIe 1.0 x16

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Supplementary power connectors

None

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Core clock speed

325 MHz

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Manufacturing process technology

90 nm

65 nm

Number of transistors

278 million

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Pipelines / CUDA cores

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24

Power consumption (TDP)

65 Watt

25 Watt

Texture fill rate

7.800

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Memory type

GDDR3

GDDR2, GDDR3

Maximum RAM amount

256 MB

256 MB

Memory bus width

256 Bit

64 Bit

Memory clock speed

1250 MHz

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Memory bandwidth

40 GB/s

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Shared memory

-

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Display Connectors

2x DVI, 1x S-Video

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DirectX

9.0c (9_3)

10.0

OpenCL

N/A

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OpenGL

2.1

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Shader Model

3.0

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Vulkan

N/A

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