Review: NVIDIA GeForce 9500GT,first budget card in GeForce 9 series
â—†GeForce 9500GT, the new mainstream card
After all it is only a 9500GT so we can not expect the 9500GT can bring us any new technology breakthrough. That’s a kind of work which only High end product can do. In NV’s view, they have launch 8600GT/GTS for more than a year, they need a “new” card to stimulate the mainstream market. that’s why 9500GT is ready to going wild.
Compare to 8600GT/GTS, GeForce got lots of G9x advantage, like 65nm process technology, PCIe 2.0, Hybrid SLI support….. Also it is the first G9x that have a 2D frequency, and can overclock only using PCIe clock. To normal user it is a easy way to OC via BIOS, but NVIDIA still did not let’s know more about this.
Though we have already try G98-8400GS and GeForce 8000 series mobo which got VP3 ability, but NVIDIA did not provide the same HD video playback ability to 9500GT, it still use the VP2 in 8600GTS, which surprised us.
Because of default frequency limitation, GeForce 9500GT did not show much performance. It is totally over HD 3650 but still can not face 8600GTS. But if its default clock raise to 600MHz, then the card can raise its performance to the level of 8600GTS with no questions. From what we know, some companies are ready to unveil 9500GT with 750MHz. But till now availability and price of GeForce 9500GT is still unknown.
Page 1: Introduction
Page 2: New technology on 9500GT
Page 3: A closer look at GeForce 9500GT
Page 4: 9500GT Performance linked with PCI-E frequency
Page 5: 9500GT back to 2D/3D frequency again
Page 6: Cooler of 9500GT
Page 7: 9500GT HD Video playback test
Page 8: GeForce 9500GT Power consumption test
Page 9: 9500GT OC test
Page 10: Performance test platform
Page 11: 9500GT performance Test
Page 12: Final thought
May 6th, 2008 at 2:13 pm
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May 6th, 2008 at 3:18 pm
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May 6th, 2008 at 4:25 pm
Can Expreview please retest with the latest leaked Nvidia Geforce 175.63 drivers? Also the GPU-Z version is very old, it’s now up to 0.2.1.
May 6th, 2008 at 5:28 pm
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May 6th, 2008 at 8:28 pm
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May 7th, 2008 at 1:47 am
Nvidia has released new 175.16 beta drivers, possible to retest?
May 9th, 2008 at 4:39 am
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May 19th, 2008 at 5:16 am
[...] Because of default frequency limitation, GeForce 9500GT did not show much performance. It is totally over HD 3650 but still can not face 8600GTS. But if its default clock raise to 600MHz, then the card can raise its performance to the level of 8600GTS with no questions. From what we know, some companies are ready to unveil 9500GT with 750MHz. But till now availability and price of GeForce 9500GT is still unknown. For a card with X500GT moniker, i say performance is impressive. Link: Review: NVIDIA GeForce 9500GT,first budget card in GeForce 9 series – Expreview.com [...]
July 11th, 2008 at 4:56 pm
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July 16th, 2008 at 7:20 pm
Hopefully VP2 is only on leaked card
) (like the case with leaked game Assain Cread), and the final version will be use VP3. And I just hope the price is the same as Geforce 8600 GTS NOW (less than $100).
July 18th, 2008 at 2:08 am
these releases by nvidia are only to fool the customers in buying slow ancient cards, in reality nvidia is stuck in the rut and cant get out anytime soon so they decided to rip the customers anyway they can instead of competing with the mighty red team. its funny how the tables change in a few days. now all thats left is to see nvidia hand over the crown so that everyone can see who is king of GPU markets.
July 18th, 2008 at 9:04 am
I lolz at you x1reme. Although AMD will have the fastest GPU when the x2 comes out, this is a low-end card. And as the review shows, it outperforms AMD’s low-end card. Nvidia isn’t trying to ‘fool the customers in buying slow ancient cards,’ they’re releasing lower-end cards to those who can’t afford a 4870 or gtx280.
July 20th, 2008 at 4:39 am
@fail you make me laugh you clown the NVIDIA GeForce 9500GT cant even beat the old 8600GTS, and which low end amd card does it beat? its people like you that are easily fooled, if your such a nvidia ass why don’t you go buy one of there high end card and be a good bway eh.
nvidia up to there normal old tactics, bringing cards centuries old (sarcasm) to make people like fail think its a good thing. what happens when you buy a pc with this card in it? it wont play HD or any other decent play back. you gonna get screwed by OEM`s selling pc`s.
move along everybody nothing to see here
July 24th, 2008 at 3:57 pm
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July 30th, 2008 at 7:30 pm
[...] level card: 9500GT. The card is no surprise for us since we have got our hands on with the card more earlier than its [...]