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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
GeForce 9500M Series
GeForce 9500M GS 32 @ 475 MHz128 Bit @ 700 MHz
GeForce 9500M G (compare) 16 @ 500 MHz128 Bit @ 800 MHz
GeForce 9500M GE (compare) 24 64 Bit
CodenameNB9P-GE1
ArchitectureG8x
Pipelines32 - unified
Core Speed475 MHz
Shader Speed950 MHz
Memory Speed700 MHz
Memory Bus Width128 Bit
Memory TypeGDDR2 / GDDR3
Max. Amount of Memory512 MB
Shared Memoryno
DirectXDirectX 10, Shader 4.0
Transistor Count289 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...

Benchmarks

3DMark Vantage
P Result 1280x1024 +
P GPU no PhysX 1280x1024 +
3DMark 2001SE - Standard 1024x768
min: 16781     avg: 21146     median: 20861 (22%)     max: 25834 Points
+ 5 benchmarks and specifications   + Show comparison chart
3DMark 03 - Standard 1024x768
min: 6580     avg: 10191.8     median: 10763 (6%)     max: 11485 Points
+ 6 benchmarks and specifications   + Show comparison chart
3DMark 05 - Standard 1024x768
min: 6236     avg: 6669.3     median: 6782 (15%)     max: 7066 Points
+ 6 benchmarks and specifications   + Show comparison chart
3DMark 06 +
Windows Vista Experience Index - GPU Games
min: 5     avg: 5.2     median: 5.3 (78%)     max: 5.3 Points
+ 3 benchmarks and specifications   + Show comparison chart
Windows Vista Experience Index - GPU
min: 4     avg: 4.5     median: 4.8 (71%)     max: 4.8 Points
+ 3 benchmarks and specifications   + Show comparison chart
Cinebench R10 Shading 32Bit +
- Range of benchmark values for this graphics card
- Average benchmark values for this graphics card
* Smaller numbers mean a higher performance

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 1024x768
48.9  fps    + Compare
med. 1024x768
18.6  fps    + Compare
high 1024x768
10.3  fps    + Compare
» With all tested laptops playable in detail settings low.
Additional Benchmarks
Low 0xAF 0xAA 1440x900
36.4
Medium 0xAF 0xAA 1440x900
14
High 1440x900
7.2
Low 1366x768
30.2
Medium 1366x768
13.3
High 1366x768
7.4
Crysis - CPU Benchmark

Crysis - CPU Benchmark

2007
low 1024x768
42 42.9 ~ 42 fps    + Compare
med. 1024x768
18.1  fps    + Compare
high 1024x768
9.2  fps    + Compare
» With all tested laptops playable in detail settings low.
Additional Benchmarks
Low 0xAF 0xAA 1440x900
32.4
Medium 0xAF 0xAA 1440x900
13.4
High 1440x900
6.8
Low 1366x768
28.1
Medium 1366x768
13.1
High 1366x768
7.1
World in Conflict - Benchmark

World in Conflict - Benchmark

2007
med. 1024x768
27 30 ~ 29 fps    + Compare
high 1024x768
14 16 ~ 15 fps    + Compare
» The benchmarks indicate that the game is not playable in the tested settings.
Additional Benchmarks
Medium 0xAF 0xAA 800x600
35
High 2xAF 2xAA 800x600
18
Medium 0xAF 0xAA 1440x900
22
High 2xAF 2xAA 1440x900
10
medium 1280x720
25
high 1280x720
14
Medium 1366x768
23
high 1366x768
13
F.E.A.R.

F.E.A.R.

2005
low 640x480
52 72 239 393 ~ 189 fps    + Compare
med. 800x600
29 69 107 121 ~ 82 fps    + Compare
high 1024x768
27 31 34 37 ~ 32 fps    + Compare
» With most tested laptops playable in detail settings med..
Doom 3

Doom 3

2004
low 640x480
143 159.9 160.6 ~ 155 fps    + Compare
med. 640x480
140 159.9 163.5 ~ 154 fps    + Compare
high 800x600
118 127.9 132.1 ~ 126 fps    + Compare
ultra 1024x768
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 1024x768
454.6 501 ~ 478 fps    + Compare
» With all tested laptops playable in detail settings high.
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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", 3.3 kg
  Review » Review Acer Aspire 6920G Notebook

Asus F8SN: Intel Core 2 Duo T9300, 14.1", 2.7 kg
  Review » Review Asus F8SN Notebook

Asus M51SN: Intel Core 2 Duo T8300, 15.4", 2.9 kg
  Review » Review Asus M51SN Mutimedia Notebook

Acer Aspire 6920G-814G32Bn: Intel Core 2 Duo T8100, 16.4", 3.3 kg
  External Review » Acer Aspire 6920G

Asus Asus X55SV: Intel Core 2 Duo T9300, 15.4", 3 kg
  External Review » Asus X55SV

Asus M50SV-AS030G: Intel Core 2 Duo T9300, 15.4", 3 kg
  External Review » Asus M50SV-AS030G 

Asus M51SN: Intel Core 2 Duo T8300, 15.4", 2.9 kg
  External Review » Asus M51SN

Asus X56SN: Intel Core 2 Duo T5750, 15.4", 2.8 kg
  External Review » Asus X56SN

Medion P7610: Intel Pentium Dual Core T3400, 17", 3.3 kg
  External Review » Medion P7610

MSI Megabook EX623GS: Intel Pentium Dual Core T3400, 16", 2.7 kg
  External Review » MSI Megabook EX623GS

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Class 2
GeForce GTX 580
Radeon HD 6970
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Quadro P1000
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Radeon HD 5850
Radeon HD 7770
Radeon HD 7770
GeForce GTX 460 768MB
Radeon HD 6790
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Radeon HD 4850
Class 3
GeForce GTS 450
Radeon HD 5670
GeForce GT 240
GeForce GT 430
Class 4
Radeon HD 5570
GeForce GT 220
Class 5
Radeon HD 4350
GeForce G 107M *
Chrome9HD *
Class 6
unknown *

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Klaus Hinum (Update: 2016-01-26)