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

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