GeForce 9500 GT Mac Edition Overview
Summary
Data interpolated by architecture, based on benchmarks charts.
The GeForce 9500 GT Mac Edition is a graphics card released by Nvidia on 19 May 2010. The graphics card houses the G96C die, based on the Nvidia_Tesla architecture which packs 314 million transistors on a 55 nm, 121 mm2 die.
GeForce 9500 GT Mac Edition pros and cons |
| Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Tesla), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications |
| PhysX support, however PhysX performance on newest games may be poor |
Compared to similar performing cards
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| GeForce 9500 GT Mac Edition | Radeon HD 7350 PCI | Radeon HD 6290 | Radeon HD 6230 | Radeon HD 5530 |
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| Shader units | 32 | 80 | 80 | 80 | 80 |
| ROPs | 8 | 4 | 4 | 2 | 4 |
| Graphics processor | G96C | Cedar | Cedar | Cedar | Cedar |
| Process size | 55 nm | 40 nm | 40 nm | 40 nm | 40 nm |
| Memory | 512 Mb GDDR3 (800 MHz
1600 MHz effective) | 512 Mb GDDR3 (500 MHz
1000 MHz effective) | 1024 Mb GDDR3 (800 MHz
1600 MHz effective) | 512 Mb DDR2 (500 MHz
1000 MHz effective) | 1024 Mb GDDR3 (600 MHz
1200 MHz effective) |
| Memory bus width | 128 bit | 64 bit | 64 bit | 64 bit | 64 bit |
| Memory bandwidth | 25.60 Gb/s | 8.00 Gb/s | 12.80 Gb/s | 8.00 Gb/s | 9.60 Gb/s |
| Release date | 19 May 2010 | 5 Jan 2012 | 4 Dec 2011 | 2 Jul 2011 | 17 Mar 2011 |