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
GeForce 9500M Series

GeForce 9500M GS 32@475MHz

GeForce 9500M G 16@500MHz

GeForce 9500M GE 24@MHz

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 2001SE - Standard 1024x768
0% 100%
min: 16781     avg: 21146 (35%)     max: 25834 Points
3DMark 03 - Standard 1024x768
0% 100%
min: 6580     avg: 10191.8 (10%)     max: 11485 Points
3DMark 05 - Standard 1024x768
0% 100%
min: 6236     avg: 6669.3 (21%)     max: 7066 Points
3DMark 06
0% 100%
min: 3225     avg: 3627.3 (14%)     max: 4078 Points
Windows Vista Experience Index - GPU
0% 100%
min: 4     avg: 4.5 (67%)     max: 4.8 Points
Windows Vista Experience Index - GPU Games
0% 100%
min: 5     avg: 5.2 (76%)     max: 5.3 Points
Cinebench R10 - Shading 32Bit
0% 100%
min: 2725     avg: 3089.7 (29%)     max: 3383 Points
3DMark Vantage - P Result no PhysX 1280x1024
0% 100%
min: 863     avg: 863 (3%)     max: 863 Points
3DMark Vantage - P GPU no PhysX 1280x1024
0% 100%
min: 690     avg: 690 (2%)     max: 690 Points
- Range of benchmark values for this graphics card
- Average benchmark values for this graphics card

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.

Crysis - GPU Benchmark
Crysis - GPU Benchmark (2007)
low:
48.9  fps      Compare
med.:
18.6  fps      Compare
high:
10.3  fps      Compare
» With all tested laptops playable in detail settings low.
Crysis - CPU Benchmark
Crysis - CPU Benchmark (2007)
low:
42 42.9 ~ 42 fps      Compare
med.:
18.1  fps      Compare
high:
9.2  fps      Compare
» With all tested laptops playable in detail settings low.
World in Conflict - Benchmark
World in Conflict - Benchmark (2007)
med.:
27 30 ~ 29 fps      Compare
high:
14 16 ~ 15 fps      Compare
» The benchmarks indicate that the game is not playable in the tested settings.
Command and Conquer III (2007): Not playable with a weaker graphics card. - more...
F.E.A.R.
F.E.A.R. (2005)
low:
52 72 239 393 ~ 189 fps      Compare
med.:
29 69 107 121 ~ 82 fps      Compare
high:
27 31 34 37 ~ 32 fps      Compare
» With most tested laptops playable in detail settings med..
World of Warcraft (2005): Playable with a weaker graphics card in detail settings med.. - more...
Doom 3
Doom 3 (2004)
low:
143 159.9 160.6 ~ 155 fps      Compare
med.:
140 159.9 163.5 ~ 154 fps      Compare
high:
118 127.9 132.1 ~ 126 fps      Compare
ultra:
78 84.7 87.6 ~ 83 fps      Compare
» With all tested laptops playable in detail settings ultra.
Quake 3 Arena - Timedemo
Quake 3 Arena - Timedemo (1999)
high:
454.6 501 ~ 478 fps      Compare
» 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

Medion P7610 (Intel Pentium Dual Core T3400, 17.0")
» Medion P7610 - External Review

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

» Comparison of GPUs
Detailled list of all laptop GPUs with a short description. Classified and sorted by performance.

» Benchmark List
Sortable and restrainable list of all GPUs with benchmarks (e.g. 3DMarks).

» Notebook Gaming List
Which game can be played with my graphics card.

Class 1
GeForce GTX 590
GeForce GTX 580
Radeon HD 6970
GeForce GTX 570
GeForce GTX 480
GeForce GTX 560 Ti
Radeon HD 6870
GeForce GTX 470
Radeon HD 5850
GeForce GTX 460 768MB
Radeon HD 6790
Radeon HD 5770
GeForce GTX 550 Ti
GeForce GTS 450
Radeon HD 4850
Radeon HD 5670
Class 2
GeForce GT 240
GeForce GT 430
7590M *
Radeon HD 5570
Radeon HD 6550D *
GeForce GT 220
Radeon HD 6450 GDDR5
Class 3
Radeon HD 4350
GeForce G 107M *
Chrome9HD *
Class 4
Class 5
Class 6
SGX543MP2 *
Mali-400 MP *
PowerVR SGX540 *
PowerVR SGX535
unknown *

* Approximate position of the graphics adapter

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Author: Klaus Hinum (Update: 2012-01-25)