NVIDIA GeForce 9500 GT vs NVIDIA Quadro FX 1500

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Graphics Processor

GPU model G96 G71
Architecture Tesla Curie
Foundry UMC TSMC
Manufacturing process 65 nm 90 nm
Number of transistors 314 million 278 million
Die size 144 mm² 196 mm²
GPU variant QDFX-1500-N-A2

Graphics Card

Release date Jul 29th, 2008 Apr 20th, 2006
Generation GeForce 9 Quadro FX
Production End-of-life End-of-life
Interface PCIe 2.0 x16 PCIe 1.0 x16
Reviews 22 in our database 26 in our database
Predecessor GeForce 8
Successor GeForce 200
Launch price 699 USD

Clocks

GPU clock 600 MHz 325 MHz
Shader clock 1500 MHz
Memory clock 1000 MHz 2 Gbps effective 625 MHz 1250 Mbps effective

Memory Configuration

Memory size 512 MB 256 MB
Memory type GDDR3 GDDR3
Memory bus width 128 bit 256 bit
Bandwidth 32.00 GB/s 40.00 GB/s

Render Configuration

Shading units 32
TMUs 16 16
ROPs 8 16
SM count 4
Cache L2 32 KB
Pixel shaders 16
Vertex shaders 6

Performance

Pixel rate 4.800 GPixel/s 5.200 GPixel/s
Texture rate 9.600 GTexel/s 5.200 GTexel/s
FP32 (float) performance 96.00 GFLOPS
Vertex rate 487.5 MVertices/s

Dimensions & Outputs

Slot width Single-slot Single-slot
TDP 50 W 65 W
Suggested PSU 250 W 250 W
Outputs 2x DVI1x S-Video 2x DVI1x S-Video
Power connectors None None
Length 173 mm 6.8 inches
Width 111 mm 4.4 inches
Board number P455

API Support & Features

DirectX 11.1 (10_0) 9.0c (9_3)
OpenGL 3.3 2.1
OpenCL 1.1
Vulkan
CUDA 1.1
Shader model 4.0 3.0

Other Features

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