ELSA may not be the most high-end of graphics card manufacturers, but it can still design innovative graphics cards, clearly shown by its new mini-format GeForce 9500GT. The graphics card isn’t just low-profile but also uses the PCIe x1 interface, instead of the larger and more spacious PCIe x16 interface. The minimalistic format makes ELSA’s GeForce 9500GT suit SFF system or slim HTPCs just fine, where there is a slight chance of missing PCIe x16 slots.
Even if PCIe x1 interface has limited bandwidth that shouldn’t pose a problem here since the relatively tired GeForce 9500GT GPU is only clocked at 550MHz and offers anything but breathtaking performance.
The card still supports the most essential features such as NVIDIA PureVideo HD, CUDA, HDMI (via adapter) and a maximal resolution of 2560×1600 pixels. Complete specifications are found below;
Specifications
- Processor Cores : 32
- Graphics Clock : 550 MHz
- Processor Clock : 1375 MHz
- Memory Clock : 1400 MHz
- Memory size : 256 MHz
- Memory interface width : 128 bit
- NVIDIA SLI : no
- NVIDIA Purevideo : HD
- NVIDIA CUDA : yes
- NVIDIA PhysX ready : yes
- Microsoft DirectX : 10
- OpenGL : 2.1
- HDMI : Via adapter
- Audio input for HDMI : SPDIF
- Bus support : PCI-e 2.0 x 1
- Max Digital resolution : 2560×1600
- Max VGA resolution : 2048×1536
