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NVIDIA GeForce 9500 GS

The NVIDIA GeForce 9500 GS is a graphics card released on July 29, 2008, built on the Tesla architecture. It has 32 shading units, 512 MB of DDR2 memory on a 128-bit bus, 16.1 GB/s of memory bandwidth, a boost clock of 550 MHz and a 40 W board power rating. It scores 216 in the PassMark G3D benchmark.

TeslaG96-259-A1

9/10 key specs recorded · 18 facts

Depth: 22 recorded fields, 2 PassMark workloads

Specification data last verified October 1, 2026 against PassMark Videocard Benchmark and Wikipedia GPU list tables (wikigrid-2026-09). Coverage: 9 of 10 tracked specifications recorded.

PassMark Videocard Benchmark Wikipedia GPU list tables (wikigrid-2026-09)PassMark Videocard Benchmark

Shading units

32cores

Memory

512 MB

DDR2 · 128-bit

Boost clock

n/a

550 MHz base

Board power

40 W

Performance

The NVIDIA GeForce 9500 GS scores 216 in the PassMark G3D benchmark, higher than 25.5% of the 2,658 GPUs benchmarked (PassMark rank #2,175), measured across 222 submitted results. Its PassMark G2D score is 34.

PassMark G3D Mark

216

Rank #2,175
Faster than 25.5% of 2,658 GPUs
222 samples

0relative to the fastest GPU on record (41,928)

PassMark workload tests

DirectX 9 8 fps

reference: fastest recorded 526 fps · faster than 14.2% of 1,675 GPUs

DirectX 10 1 fps

reference: fastest recorded 231 fps · faster than 0% of 1,602 GPUs

Averages of PassMark PerformanceTest submissions; frames/sec are PassMark test-scene rates, not game FPS. Tests PassMark does not report for this card are omitted. PassMark listing

In the PassMark workload tests the NVIDIA GeForce 9500 GS averages DirectX 9 8 fps and DirectX 10 1 fps, across 222 submitted results. Frames per second are PassMark test-scene rates, not game frame rates.

As stated by PassMark

First benchmarked 2012-08-19

Samples 222

PassMark listing (collected 2026-10-01)

Not to be confused with

This page covers the NVIDIA GeForce 9500 GS specifically. It is a different product from NVIDIA GeForce 9500 GS Rev. 2, which have their own specifications. Check the exact model name before comparing figures.

Graphics processor

Architecture Tesla

Codename G96-259-A1

Chip Not recorded

Process node Not recorded

Transistors 314 M

Die size Not recorded

The NVIDIA GeForce 9500 GS is based on the Tesla architecture, uses the G96-259-A1 graphics processor and contains 314 million transistors.

Shader configuration

Shading units 32

Compute units Not recorded

Streaming multiprocessors Not recorded

Execution units Not recorded

Texture units (TMUs) 16

Render output units (ROPs) 8

Ray tracing cores Not recorded

Tensor / AI cores Not recorded

XMX engines Not recorded

Infinity cache Not recorded

The NVIDIA GeForce 9500 GS has 32 shading units, 16 texture mapping units and 8 render output units.

The NVIDIA GeForce 9500 GS does not use XMX engines; those are specific to Intel Arc graphics. Infinity Cache is an AMD architectural feature and does not apply to the NVIDIA GeForce 9500 GS. Feex has no recorded ray tracing core count for the NVIDIA GeForce 9500 GS.