GeForce 8500 GT: specs and benchmarks

Summary

NVIDIA started GeForce 8500 GT sales 17 April 2007 at a recommended price of $129 . This is a desktop graphics card based on a Tesla architecture and made with 80 nm manufacturing process. It is primarily aimed at gamer market. 256 MB of GDDR3 memory clocked at 0.8 GHz are supplied, and together with 128 Bit memory interface this creates a bandwidth of 12.8 GB/s.

Compatibility-wise, this is single-slot card attached via PCIe 1.0 x16 interface. Its manufacturer default version has a length of 229 mm. No additional power connector is required, and power consumption is at 30 Watt.

Primary details

Some basic facts about GeForce 8500 GT: architecture, market segment, release date etc.

Place in performance ranking	not rated
Place by popularity	not in top-100
Architecture	Tesla (2006−2010)
GPU code name	G86
Market segment	Desktop
Release date	17 April 2007 (17 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)	$129
Current price	$231 (1.8x MSRP)	of 168889 (A100 PCIe 80 GB)

Detailed specifications

GeForce 8500 GT's specs such as number of shaders, GPU base clock, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of GeForce 8500 GT's performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider its benchmark and gaming test results.

Pipelines / CUDA cores	16	of 20480 (Data Center GPU Max NEXT)
Core clock speed	459 MHz	of 2610 (Radeon RX 6500 XT)
Number of transistors	210 million	of 14400 (GeForce GTX 1080 SLI Mobile)
Manufacturing process technology	80 nm	of 4 (H100 PCIe)
Power consumption (TDP)	30 Watt	of 2400 (Data Center GPU Max Subsystem)
Texture fill rate	3.6 billion/sec	of 969.9 (H100 SXM5 96 GB)
Floating-point performance	29.376 gflops	of 16384 (Radeon Pro Duo)

Form factor & compatibility

This section provides details about the physical dimensions of GeForce 8500 GT and its compatibility with other computer components. This information is useful when selecting a computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards, it includes details about the interface and bus (for motherboard compatibility) and additional power connectors (for power supply compatibility).

Interface	PCIe 1.0 x16
Length	229 mm
Width	1-slot
Supplementary power connectors	None
SLI options	+

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of memory installed on GeForce 8500 GT: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Note that GPUs integrated into processors have no dedicated memory and use a shared part of system RAM instead.

Memory type	GDDR3
Maximum RAM amount	256 MB	of 192 (Radeon Instinct MI300X)
Standard memory config per GPU	256 MB
Memory bus width	128 Bit	of 8192 (Radeon Instinct MI250X)
Memory clock speed	800 MHz	of 23000 (GeForce RTX 4080 SUPER)
Memory bandwidth	12.8 GB/s	of 3276 (Aldebaran)

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on GeForce 8500 GT. As a rule, this section is relevant only for desktop reference graphics cards, since for notebook ones the availability of certain video outputs depends on the laptop model, while non-reference desktop models can (though not necessarily will) bear a different set of video ports.

Display Connectors

1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video

API compatibility

APIs supported by GeForce 8500 GT, sometimes including their particular versions.

DirectX	11.1 (10_0)
Shader Model	4.0
OpenGL	2.1	of 4.6 (GeForce GTX 1080 Mobile)
OpenCL	1.1
Vulkan	N/A
CUDA	1.1

Benchmark performance

Synthetic benchmark performance of GeForce 8500 GT. The combined score is measured on a 0-100 point scale.

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