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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).

GeForce 9500M Series

GeForce 9500M GS 32 @ 0.48 GHz128 Bit @ 700 MHz
GeForce 9500M G compare 16 @ 0.5 GHz128 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
APIDirectX 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 Pagewww.nvidia.com

Benchmarks

3DMark Vantage
3DM Vant. Perf. total +
3DM Vant. Perf. GPU no PhysX +
3DMark 2001SE - 3DMark 2001 - Standard
min: 16781     avg: 21146     median: 20861 (22%)     max: 25834 Points
3DMark 03 - 3DMark 03 - Standard
min: 6580     avg: 10192     median: 10763 (6%)     max: 11485 Points
3DMark 06 3DMark 06 - Score Unknown Settings +
3DMark 06
min: 3655     avg: 3663     median: 3662.5 (5%)     max: 3670 points
3DMark 06 - Standard 1280x1024 +
3DMark 06
min: 3225     avg: 3679     median: 3705.5 (5%)     max: 4078 Points
3DMark 06 - Standard 1280x800 +
Cinebench R10 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 detailed 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.
lowmed.highultraQHD4K
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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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

 

Review Acer Aspire 6920G Notebook

The New Middle-Class. Nearly all details were changed with the introduction of the new compact multimedia notebooks by Acer. Packed in a new distinctive Gemston...
Intel Core 2 Duo T8100 | NVIDIA GeForce 9500M GS | 16.40" | 3.3 kg
 

Review Asus M51SN Mutimedia Notebook

Multimedia all-rounder. A lot has changed on the notebook market since the appearance of the new graphics card series by nVIDIA. Various producers already start...
Intel Core 2 Duo T8300 | NVIDIA GeForce 9500M GS | 15.40" | 2.9 kg
 

Review Asus F8SN Notebook

Mobile Gaming Notebook. The Asus F8SN is a powerful 14" notebook with GeForce 9500M GS video card and Core 2 Duo T9300 "Penryn" processor. This review uncovers ...
Intel Core 2 Duo T9300 | NVIDIA GeForce 9500M GS | 14.10" | 2.7 kg

MSI Megabook EX623GS: Intel Pentium Dual Core T3400, 16.00", 2.7 kg
  External Review » MSI Megabook EX623GS

Medion P7610: Intel Pentium Dual Core T3400, 17.00", 3.3 kg
  External Review » Medion P7610

Asus X56SN: Intel Core 2 Duo T5750, 15.40", 2.8 kg
  External Review » Asus X56SN

Acer Aspire 6920G-814G32Bn: Intel Core 2 Duo T8100, 16.40", 3.3 kg
  External Review » Acer Aspire 6920G

Asus Asus X55SV: Intel Core 2 Duo T9300, 15.40", 3 kg
  External Review » Asus X55SV

Asus M51SN: Intel Core 2 Duo T8300, 15.40", 2.9 kg
  External Review » Asus M51SN

Asus M50SV-AS030G: Intel Core 2 Duo T9300, 15.40", 3 kg
  External Review » Asus M50SV-AS030G 

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