GeForce 9500 GT vs GTS 250M

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking991not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency3.68no data
ArchitectureTesla 2.0 (2007−2013)Tesla (2006−2010)
GPU code nameGT215G96
Market segmentLaptopDesktop
Release date15 June 2009 (15 years ago)29 July 2008 (16 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)no data$85.99

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 cores9632
Core clock speed500 MHz550 MHz
Number of transistors727 million314 million
Manufacturing process technology40 nm65 nm
Power consumption (TDP)28 Watt50 Watt
Maximum GPU temperatureno data105 °C
Texture fill rate16.009.600
Floating-point processing power0.24 TFLOPS0.096 TFLOPS
Gigaflops360no data
ROPs88
TMUs3216

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).

Laptop sizelargeno data
Bus supportPCI-E 2.0no data
InterfacePCIe 2.0 x16PCIe 2.0 x16
Lengthno data175 mm
Heightno data4.376" (11.1 cm)
Widthno data1-slot
Supplementary power connectorsno dataNone
SLI options++
MXM TypeMXM 3.0 Type-Bno 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 typeGDDR5GDDR3
Maximum RAM amount1 GB1 GB
Memory bus width128 Bit128 Bit
Memory clock speedUp to 2000 MHz800 (GDDR3) and 500 (DDR2) MHz
Memory bandwidth51.2 GB/s25.6 (GDDR3) and 16.0 (DDR2)
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 ConnectorsHDMIVGALVDSSingle Link DVIDisplayPortDual Link DVIDual Link DVISingle Link DVI
Multi monitor supportno data+
HDMI++
Maximum VGA resolution2048x15362048x1536
Audio input for HDMIno dataS/PDIF

Supported technologies

Supported technological solutions. This information will prove useful if you need some particular technology for your purposes.

Power management8.0no data

API compatibility

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

DirectX11.1 (10_1)11.1 (10_0)
Shader Model4.14.0
OpenGL2.12.1
OpenCL1.11.1
VulkanN/AN/A
CUDA++

Synthetic benchmark performance

Non-gaming benchmark results comparison. The combined score is measured on a 0-100 point scale.



Passmark

This is the most ubiquitous GPU benchmark. It gives the graphics card a thorough evaluation under various types of load, providing four separate benchmarks for Direct3D versions 9, 10, 11 and 12 (the last being done in 4K resolution if possible), and few more tests engaging DirectCompute capabilities.

GTS 250M 553
+239%
9500 GT 163

Pros & cons summary


Recency 15 June 2009 29 July 2008
Chip lithography 40 nm 65 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 28 Watt 50 Watt

GTS 250M has an age advantage of 10 months, a 62.5% more advanced lithography process, and 78.6% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between GeForce GTS 250M and GeForce 9500 GT. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that GeForce GTS 250M is a notebook card while GeForce 9500 GT is a desktop one.


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