The 9500 GT is the first desktop video card based on the G96 core. Currently manufactured in 65nm (55nm production will start later this year), PCI-Express 2.0 and OpenGL 2.1 support. You also get support for PureVideoHD which enables hardware decoding of VC-1 in addition to WMV and MPEG-2 HD. Memory wise, it is equipeed with 256MB or 512MB of DDR2 or GDDR3.

Reference specs:

* Stream processors: 32
* Core clock: 550 MHz
* Shader clock: 1400 MHz
* Memory clock: 800 MHz
* Memory bus width: 128 bits
* Memory bandwidth: 25.6 GB/s

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