NVIDIA GeForce 6500: GPU Specs & Benchmarks

The GeForce 6500 is a graphics card by NVIDIA, built on the 110 nm process and based on the NV44 graphics processor (GPU). The video card specifications and performance tests (benchmarks) are listed below.

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Graphics Processor (GPU)

GPU Name
NV44
Architecture
Curie
Foundry
TSMC
Process Size
110 nm
Transistors
75 million
Die Size
110 mm²

Graphics Card

Release Date
Oct 1st, 2005
Family
GeForce 6 PCIe
(6500)
Production
End-of-life
Predecessor
GeForce PCX
Bus Interface
PCIe 1.0 x16

Memory

Memory Size
128 MB
Memory Type
DDR2
Memory Bus
128 bit
Bandwidth
8.512 GB/s

Performance

Pixel fillrate
800.0 MPixel/s
Vertex fillrate
300.0 MVertices/s
Texture fillrate
1.600 GTexel/s

Clock Speeds

Memory Clock
266 MHz
532 Mbps effective
GPU Clock
400 MHz

Render Config

TMUs
4
ROPs
2
Pixel Shaders
4
Vertex Shaders
3

Board Design

Slot Width
Single-slot
Thermal design power (TDP)
unknown
Suggested PSU
200 W
Display Connectors
1x DVI
1x VGA
1x S-Video

API support

DirectX
9.0c (9_3)
OpenGL
2.1
OpenCL
N/A
Vulkan
N/A
Shader Model
3.0
GeForce 6500
NVIDIA GeForce 6500: GPU Specs & Benchmarks