GeForce 6500
The reference version of the GeForce 6500 video card assumed the use of 128 MB of GDDR-2 memory, which operates at a frequency of 666 MHz DDR.
Specifications NVIDIA GeForce 6500
| Name | GeForce 6500 |
| Core | NV44 |
| Process technology (µm) | 0.11 |
| Transistors (million) | 77 |
| Core frequency | 400 |
| Memory frequency (DDR) | 350 (700) |
| Bus and memory type | GDDR1 64 Bit |
| Bandwidth (Gb/s) | 5.6 |
| Pixel pipelines | 4 |
| TMU per conveyor | 1 |
| textures per clock | 4 |
| textures per pass | 4 |
| Vertex conveyors | 3 |
| Pixel Shaders | 3.0 |
| Vertex Shaders | 3.0 |
| Fill Rate (Mpix/s) | 800 |
| Fill Rate (Mtex/s) | 1600 |
| DirectX | 9.0c |
| Anti-Aliasing (Max) | SS&MS - 8x |
| Anisotropic Filtering (Max) | 16x |
| Memory | 128 |
| Interface | PCI-E/AGP |
| RAMDAC | 2x400 |
In comparison with the nearest competitor X550, it lost little to him in terms of performance. The GeForce 6500 might appeal to nVidia's cutting-edge technology enthusiasts who weren't keen on high-resolution games. Performance suffered from a narrow memory bus, and this problem can only be solved by choosing a different graphics card.