GeForce RTX 5060 vs 9500M GE

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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
Architectureno dataBlackwell 2.0 (2025)
GPU code nameMCP79Mx + NB9MGB206
Market segmentLaptopDesktop
Release date9 January 2008 (16 years ago)2025

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 cores244608
Core clock speedno data2235 MHz
Boost clock speedno data2520 MHz
Manufacturing process technology65 nm0 nm
Power consumption (TDP)25 Watt170 Watt
Texture fill rateno data362.9
Floating-point processing powerno data23.22 TFLOPS
ROPsno data48
TMUsno data144
Tensor Coresno data144
Ray Tracing Coresno data36

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).

Interfaceno dataPCIe 5.0 x16
Widthno data2-slot
Supplementary power connectorsno data1x 16-pin

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 typeGDDR2, GDDR3GDDR7
Maximum RAM amount256 MB8 GB
Memory bus width64 Bit128 Bit
Memory clock speedno data2500 MHz
Memory bandwidthno data80 GB/s
Shared memory--

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 Connectorsno data1x HDMI 2.1, 3x DisplayPort 1.4a
HDMI-+

API compatibility

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

DirectX10.012 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Modelno data6.7
OpenGLno data4.6
OpenCLno data3.0
Vulkan-1.3
CUDA-9.1

Pros & cons summary


Maximum RAM amount 256 MB 8 GB
Power consumption (TDP) 25 Watt 170 Watt

9500M GE has 580% lower power consumption.

RTX 5060, on the other hand, has a 3100% higher maximum VRAM amount.

We couldn't decide between GeForce 9500M GE and GeForce RTX 5060. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that GeForce 9500M GE is a notebook card while GeForce RTX 5060 is a desktop one.


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