Quadro RTX 5000 Mobile Refresh vs GeForce 9500 GS

Primary details

GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.

Place in the rankingnot ratednot rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
ArchitectureTesla (2006−2010)Turing (2018−2022)
GPU code nameG96TU104B
Market segmentDesktopMobile workstation
Release date29 July 2008 (16 years ago)8 June 2020 (4 years ago)

Detailed specifications

General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores323072
Core clock speed550 MHz1035 MHz
Boost clock speedno data1545 MHz
Number of transistors314 million13,600 million
Manufacturing process technology65 nm12 nm
Power consumption (TDP)40 Watt110 Watt
Texture fill rate8.800296.6
Floating-point processing power0.088 TFLOPS9.492 TFLOPS
ROPs864
TMUs16192
Tensor Coresno data384
Ray Tracing Coresno data48

Form factor & compatibility

Information on compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

InterfacePCIe 2.0 x16PCIe 3.0 x16
Width1-slotno data
Supplementary power connectorsNoneno data

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory typeDDR2GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount512 MB16 GB
Memory bus width128 Bit256 Bit
Memory clock speed504 MHz1750 MHz
Memory bandwidth16.13 GB/s448.0 GB/s

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on the reviewed GPUs. As a rule, data in this section is precise only for desktop reference ones (so-called Founders Edition for NVIDIA chips). OEM manufacturers may change the number and type of output ports, while for notebook cards availability of certain video outputs ports depends on the laptop model rather than on the card itself.

Display Connectors2x DVI, 1x S-VideoNo outputs

API compatibility

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX11.1 (10_0)12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Model4.06.5
OpenGL3.34.6
OpenCL1.11.2
VulkanN/A1.2.140
CUDA1.17.5

Pros & cons summary


Recency 29 July 2008 8 June 2020
Maximum RAM amount 512 MB 16 GB
Chip lithography 65 nm 12 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 40 Watt 110 Watt

9500 GS has 175% lower power consumption.

RTX 5000 Mobile Refresh, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 11 years, a 3100% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 441.7% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between GeForce 9500 GS and Quadro RTX 5000 Mobile Refresh. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that GeForce 9500 GS is a desktop card while Quadro RTX 5000 Mobile Refresh is a mobile workstation one.


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NVIDIA GeForce 9500 GS
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