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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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Crysis - CPU Benchmark: - Low 1024x768
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      min: 42, avg: 42, max: 42.9 fps
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Crysis - CPU Benchmark: - High 1024x768
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      min: 9.2, avg: 9, max: 9.2 fps
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Cinebench R10: - Shading
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      min: 2725, avg: 3090, max: 3383 Points
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Quake 3 Arena - Timedemo: - highest 1024x768
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      min: 454.6, avg: 478, max: 501 fps
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F.E.A.R.: - GPU min, CPU min 640x480
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      min: 52, avg: 189, max: 393 fps
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F.E.A.R.: - GPU medium, CPU medium 800x600
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      min: 29, avg: 82, max: 121 fps
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F.E.A.R.: - GPU: max, CPU: max 1024x768
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      min: 27, avg: 32, max: 37 fps
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Doom 3: - Low 640x480
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      min: 143, avg: 155, max: 160.6 fps
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Doom 3: - Medium 800x600
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      min: 140, avg: 154, max: 163.5 fps
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Doom 3: - High 800x600
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      min: 118, avg: 126, max: 132.1 fps
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Doom 3: - Ultra 1024x768
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      min: 78, avg: 83, max: 87.6 fps
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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 57 benchmarks

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

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Asus Asus X55SV (Intel Core 2 Duo T9300, 15.4")
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Asus F8SN (Intel Core 2 Duo T9300, 14.1")
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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
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Asus X56SN (Intel Core 2 Duo T5750, 15.4")
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Author: Klaus Hinum (Update: 2009-06-15)