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NVIDIA GeForce 9500M GE vs NVIDIA GeForce 9500M G vs NVIDIA GeForce 9500M GS

NVIDIA GeForce 9500M GE

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Die NVIDIA GeForce 9500M GE (sometimes also called only 9500M or 9500M GM) is a combination of the Nvidia GeForce 9400M (G) chipset and a dedicated NB9M entry level graphics card (GeForce 9200M GS or 9300M GS) in GeForceBoost mode.

HybridPower is a technique to choose between the integrated and dedicated graphics core, if performance or battery runtime is needed. This works only in Windows Vista. Up to now the user has to use a tool to switch between the GPUs. Later Nvidia wants to switch automatically in the drivers. GeForceBoost uses the integrated graphics core of the 9400M G and the dedicated of the NB9M (9300M GS or 9200M GS) in SLI mode to achieve better frame rates.

The performance of the 9500M GE graphic solution depends on the SLI support of the game and the type of dediacted NB9M graphics card (clock rates and memory). Dell for example claims to reach 3300 points in 3DMark06 with a 9300M GS with 256MB GDDR3 RAM (in GeForceBoost mode). This would be as fast as slow GeForce 8600M GT cards. Still the performance in actual games may be much slower.

Furthermore, the 9500M may suffer from micro stuttering (stuttering in playable regions of 30 fps) in GeforceBoost because of different frame times.

The gaming performance of the solution should be sufficient for DirectX 9 games in medium detail settings. Demanding DirectX 10 games, like Crysis will only run in low detail settings.

The power consumption of the 9500M GE depends on the Hybid SLI setting and can reach up to 25 Watt TDP for the combination (including the chipset).

NVIDIA GeForce 9500M G

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The Nvidia GeForce 9500M G is the successor of the 8600M GS as it also featuresonly 16 unified shaders (the 9600M series features 32). Compared to the8600M GS, the 9500M G has an improved PureVideo HD engine (VP3), supports Hybrid-SLI and needs less current (because of the 65nm process).

In conjunction with the Nvidia 9100M G integrated graphics, the 9500M G supports Hybrid-SLI (HybridPower and GeForceBoost). HybridPower is a technique to choose between the integrated and dedicated graphics core, if performance or battery runtime is needed. This works only in Windows Vista. Up to now the user has to use a tool to switch between the GPUs. Later Nvidia wants to switch automatically in the drivers. GeForceBoost uses the integrated graphics core of the 9100M G and the dedicated of the 9500M G in SLI mode to achieve better frame rates.

As the 8600M GS, the 9500M G features 16 stream processors that do the work of the former dedicated pixel- and vertex-shaders. The unified shaders of Nvidia are 1-dimensional (AMD has 5-dimensional shaders which leads to the higher number of shaders).

The desktop GeForce 9500 graphics card is not compareable to the mobile 9500M G, because it has 32 stream processors (compareable to the 9600M series).

NVIDIA GeForce 9500M GS

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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).

NVIDIA GeForce 9500M GENVIDIA GeForce 9500M GNVIDIA GeForce 9500M GS
GeForce 9500M Series
GeForce 9500M GS 32 @ 0.48 GHz128 Bit @ 700 MHz
GeForce 9500M G 16 @ 0.5 GHz128 Bit @ 800 MHz
GeForce 9500M GE 24 64 Bit
GeForce 9500M GS 32 @ 0.48 GHz128 Bit @ 700 MHz
GeForce 9500M G 16 @ 0.5 GHz128 Bit @ 800 MHz
GeForce 9500M GE 24 64 Bit
GeForce 9500M GS 32 @ 0.48 GHz128 Bit @ 700 MHz
GeForce 9500M G 16 @ 0.5 GHz128 Bit @ 800 MHz
GeForce 9500M GE 24 64 Bit
CodenameMCP79Mx + NB9MNB9PNB9P-GE1
Pipelines24 - unified16 - unified32 - unified
Memory Bus Width64 Bit128 Bit128 Bit
Memory TypeGDDR2, GDDR3GDDR2, GDDR3GDDR2 / GDDR3
Max. Amount of Memory256 MB1024 MB512 MB
Shared Memoryyesnono
APIDirectX 10.0, Shader 4.0DirectX 10, Shader 4.0DirectX 10, Shader 4.0
Power Consumption25 Watt
technology65 nm65 nm80 nm
Date of Announcement09.01.2008 03.06.2008 01.02.2008
ArchitectureG9xG8x
Core Speed500 MHz475 MHz
Shader Speed1250 MHz950 MHz
Memory Speed800 MHz700 MHz
Transistors314 Million289 Million
FeaturesPCI-E 2.0Shader mit 950 MHz getaktet
Notebook Sizemedium sizedmedium sized
Link to Manufacturer Pagewww.nvidia.comwww.nvidia.com

Benchmarks

3DMark Vantage
3DM Vant. Perf. total + NVIDIA GeForce 9500M GS
3DMark Vantage - 3DM Vant. Perf. total
863 Points (0%)
3DM Vant. Perf. GPU no PhysX + NVIDIA GeForce 9500M GS
3DMark Vantage - 3DM Vant. Perf. GPU no PhysX
690 Points (0%)
3DMark 2001SE - 3DMark 2001 - Standard
min: 13820     avg: 13926     median: 13926 (14%)     max: 14032 Points
min: 16781     avg: 21146     median: 20861 (22%)     max: 25834 Points
3DMark 03 - 3DMark 03 - Standard
min: 8010     avg: 8034     median: 8033.5 (4%)     max: 8057 Points
min: 6580     avg: 10192     median: 10763 (6%)     max: 11485 Points
3DMark 05 - 3DMark 05 - Standard
min: 5685     avg: 5766     median: 5765.5 (6%)     max: 5846 Points
min: 6236     avg: 6669     median: 6782 (7%)     max: 7066 Points
3DMark 06 3DMark 06 - Standard 1280x800 + NVIDIA GeForce 9500M G
3DMark 06
min: 3428     avg: 3435     median: 3435 (5%)     max: 3442 Points
3DMark 06 - Standard 1280x800 + NVIDIA GeForce 9500M GS
3352 Points (4%)
3DMark 06 - Score Unknown Settings + NVIDIA GeForce 9500M GS
3DMark 06
min: 3655     avg: 3663     median: 3662.5 (5%)     max: 3670 Points
3DMark 06 - Standard 1280x1024 + NVIDIA GeForce 9500M GS
3DMark 06
min: 3225     avg: 3679     median: 3705.5 (5%)     max: 4078 Points
Windows Vista Experience Index - Windows Vista Leistungsindex - Grafik (Spiele)
min: 5     avg: 5.2     median: 5.3 (78%)     max: 5.3 Points
Windows Vista Experience Index - Windows Vista Leistungsindex - Grafik
min: 4     avg: 4.5     median: 4.8 (71%)     max: 4.8 Points
Cinebench R10 Cinebench R10 Shading (32bit) + NVIDIA GeForce 9500M G
Cinebench R10 - Cinebench R10 Shading (32bit)
min: 2127     avg: 2221     median: 2220.5 (2%)     max: 2314 Points
Cinebench R10 Shading (32bit) + NVIDIA GeForce 9500M GS
min: 2725     avg: 3090     median: 3161 (2%)     max: 3383 Points

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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 detailed information on the benchmark results, click on the fps number.

Crysis - GPU Benchmark

Crysis - GPU Benchmark

2007
low 1024x768
GeForce 9500M G:
38.6  fps
GeForce 9500M GS:
48.9  fps
med. 1024x768
GeForce 9500M G:
15.7  fps
GeForce 9500M GS:
18.6  fps
high 1024x768
GeForce 9500M GS:
10.3  fps
Crysis - CPU Benchmark

Crysis - CPU Benchmark

2007
low 1024x768
GeForce 9500M G:
38.3  fps
GeForce 9500M GS:
42 42.9 ~ 42 fps
med. 1024x768
GeForce 9500M G:
16.2  fps
GeForce 9500M GS:
18.1  fps
high 1024x768
GeForce 9500M GS:
9.2  fps
World in Conflict - Benchmark

World in Conflict - Benchmark

2007
med. 1024x768
GeForce 9500M GS:
27 30 ~ 29 fps
high 1024x768
GeForce 9500M GS:
14 16 ~ 15 fps
F.E.A.R.

F.E.A.R.

2005
low 640x480
GeForce 9500M G:
28 308 ~ 168 fps
GeForce 9500M GS:
52 72 239 393 ~ 189 fps
med. 800x600
GeForce 9500M G:
25 81 ~ 53 fps
GeForce 9500M GS:
29 69 107 121 ~ 82 fps
high 1024x768
GeForce 9500M G:
18 21 ~ 20 fps
GeForce 9500M GS:
27 31 34 37 ~ 32 fps
Doom 3

Doom 3

2004
low 640x480
GeForce 9500M G:
88  fps
GeForce 9500M GS:
143 159.9 160.6 ~ 155 fps
med. 640x480
GeForce 9500M G:
87.8  fps
GeForce 9500M GS:
140 159.9 163.5 ~ 154 fps
high 800x600
GeForce 9500M G:
65.2  fps
GeForce 9500M GS:
118 127.9 132.1 ~ 126 fps
ultra 1024x768
GeForce 9500M G:
44.1  fps
GeForce 9500M GS:
78 84.7 87.6 ~ 83 fps
Quake 3 Arena - Timedemo

Quake 3 Arena - Timedemo

1999
high 1024x768
GeForce 9500M G:
158.4  fps
GeForce 9500M GS:
454.6 501 ~ 478 fps
NVIDIA GeForce 9500M Glowmed.highultraQHD4K
Crysis - GPU Benchmark38.6115.71
Crysis - CPU Benchmark38.3216.23
F.E.A.R.1685320
Doom 38887.865.244.1
Quake 3 Arena - Timedemo158.4
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Crysis - GPU Benchmark48.918.610.3
Crysis - CPU Benchmark4218.19.2
World in Conflict - Benchmark2915
F.E.A.R.1898232
Doom 315515412683
Quake 3 Arena - Timedemo478
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