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NVIDIA GeForce 9500M GS

The GeForce 9500M GS is a middle class graphics card from the GeForce 9000M series and the successor of the  8600M GT GPU. Benchmarks show an average 10% increase of frame rates in all games because of internal optimizations (compared to a 8600M GT with the same GPU and memory clock). According to Nvidia the card should also have a lower current consumption.

The card offers full DirectX 10 hardware acceleration, but is not fast enough to render DirectX 10 effects of demanding games, like Crysis, fluently.

The particularity of this video card are the "Unified Shader". Pixel- and vertex-shaders do not exist any more but 32 of the so called stream processors do the graphic work (which up to now pixel- and vertex shaders did).

ManufacturerNVIDIA
SeriesGeForce 9000M
CodenameNB9P-GE1
Pipelines32 - unified
Core Speed *475 MHz
Shader Speed *950 MHz
Memory Speed *700 MHz
Memory Bus Width128 Bit
Memory TypeGDDR2 / GDDR3
Max. Amount of Memory512 MB
Shared Memoryno
DirectXDirectX 10, Shader 4.0
Transistors289 Million
technology80 nm
FeaturesShader mit 950 MHz getaktet
Notebook Sizemedium sized
Date of Announcement01.02.2008
Link to Manufacturer Pagehttp://www.nvidia.com/object/geforce_950...
* The specified clock rates are only guidelines for the manufacturer and can be altered by them.

benchmarks

3DMark 2001: - Standard 1024x768
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      min: 16781, avg: 21146, max: 25834 Points
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3DMark 03: - Standard 1024x768
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      min: 6580, avg: 10192, max: 11485 Points
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3DMark 05: - Standard 1024x768
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      min: 6236, avg: 6669, max: 7066 Points
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3DMark 06:
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      min: 3225, avg: 3627, max: 4078 Points
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Cinebench R10: - Shading
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      min: 2725, avg: 3090, max: 3383 Points
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3DMark Vantage: - P Result 1280x1024
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      min: 863, avg: 863, max: 863 Points
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- Range of benchmark values for this graphics card
- Average benchmark values for this graphics card
Based on 28 benchmarks

Game Benchmarks

The following benchmarks stem from our benchmarks of review laptops. The performance depends on the used graphics memory, clock rate, processor, system settings, drivers, and operating systems. So the results don't have to be representative for all laptops with this GPU. For detailled information on the benchmark results, click on the fps number.

CoD Modern Warfare 2 (2009): Playable with a weaker graphics card in detail settings low. - more...
Risen (2009): Playable with a weaker graphics card in detail settings low. - more...
Need for Speed Shift (2009): Not playable with a weaker graphics card. - more...
Colin McRae: DIRT 2 (2009): Playable with a weaker graphics card in detail settings low. - more...
Anno 1404 (2009): Playable with a weaker graphics card in detail settings low. - more...
Sims 3 (2009): Playable with a weaker graphics card in detail settings med.. - more...
F.E.A.R. 2 (2009): Playable with a weaker graphics card in detail settings low. - more...
GTA IV - Grand Theft Auto (2008): Not playable with a weaker graphics card. - more...
Left 4 Dead (2008): Playable with a weaker graphics card in detail settings high. - more...
Far Cry 2 (2008): Playable with a weaker graphics card in detail settings low. - more...
Crysis Warhead (2008): Not playable with a weaker graphics card. - more...
Racedriver: GRID (2008): Playable with a weaker graphics card in detail settings low. - more...
Call of Duty 4 - Modern Warfare (2007): Playable with a weaker graphics card in detail settings low. - more...
Supreme Commander - FA Bench (2007): Not playable with a weaker graphics card. - more...
Crysis - GPU Benchmark
Crysis - GPU Benchmark (2007)
low:
48.9  fps
med.:
18.6  fps
high:
10.3  fps
» With all tested laptops playable in detail settings low.
Crysis - CPU Benchmark
Crysis - CPU Benchmark (2007)
low:
42 42.9 ~ 42 fps
med.:
18.1  fps
high:
9.2  fps
» With all tested laptops playable in detail settings low.
World in Conflict - Benchmark
World in Conflict - Benchmark (2007)
med.:
27 30 ~ 29 fps
high:
14 16 ~ 15 fps
» With most tested laptops not playable.
Command and Conquer III (2007): Not playable with a weaker graphics card. - more...
Call of Juarez Benchmark (2006): Not playable with a weaker graphics card. - more...
The Elder Scrolls IV - Oblivion (2006): Playable with a weaker graphics card in detail settings high. - more...
Half Life 2 - Lost Coast Benchmark (2005): Playable with a weaker graphics card in detail settings high. - more...
Quake 4 (2005): Playable with a weaker graphics card in detail settings ultra. - more...
F.E.A.R.
F.E.A.R. (2005)
low:
52 72 239 393 ~ 189 fps
med.:
29 69 107 121 ~ 82 fps
high:
27 31 34 37 ~ 32 fps
» With most tested laptops playable in detail settings med..
World of Warcraft (2005): Playable with a weaker graphics card in detail settings med.. - more...
Counter-Strike Source (2004): Playable with a weaker graphics card in detail settings high. - more...
Doom 3
Doom 3 (2004)
low:
143 159.9 160.6 ~ 155 fps
med.:
140 159.9 163.5 ~ 154 fps
high:
118 127.9 132.1 ~ 126 fps
ultra:
78 84.7 87.6 ~ 83 fps
» With all tested laptops playable in detail settings ultra.
Quake 3 Arena - Timedemo
Quake 3 Arena - Timedemo (1999)
high:
454.6 501 ~ 478 fps
» With all tested laptops playable in detail settings high.

For more games that might be playable and a list of all games and graphics cards visit our Gaming List

Games Performance

The following average frame rates were measured with a Asus F8SN notebook equiped with GDDR2 and a T9300 CPU.

Crysis: 1024x768, low: 45 fps -> fully playable (altough not beautiful)
Supreme Commander (Benchmark): 1024x768, low: 27 fps -> well playable (especially smaller maps)
Unreal Tournament 3: 1024x768, Details 3/5: 30 fps -> playable with some stuttering (5-50 fps)
Doom 3: 1024x768, ultra: 84,7 fps -> fully playable
F.E.A.R.: 1024x768, med/med: 69 fps -> fully playable (in max/max avg. 34 fps)
Quake 3 Arena: 1024x768, highest: 501 fps -> fully playable

Notebook reviews with NVIDIA GeForce 9500M GS graphics card

Acer Aspire 6920G-814G32Bn (Intel Core 2 Duo T8100, 16.4")
» Review Acer Aspire 6920G Notebook - Review
» Acer Aspire 6920G - External Review

Asus Asus X55SV (Intel Core 2 Duo T9300, 15.4")
» Asus X55SV - External Review

Asus F8SN (Intel Core 2 Duo T9300, 14.1")
» Review Asus F8SN Notebook - Review

Asus M50SV-AS030G (Intel Core 2 Duo T9300, 15.4")
» Asus M50SV-AS030G  - External Review

Asus M51SN (Intel Core 2 Duo T8300, 15.4")
» Review Asus M51SN Mutimedia Notebook - Review
» Asus M51SN - External Review

Asus X56SN (Intel Core 2 Duo T5750, 15.4")
» Asus X56SN - External Review

MSI Megabook EX623GS (Intel Pentium Dual Core T3400, 16.0")
» MSI Megabook EX623GS - External Review

 

Author: Klaus Hinum (Update: 2010-02- 4)