GeForce 8500 GT vs GRID K340

Place in the ranking	759	1276
Place by popularity	not in top-100	not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation	0.04	0.01
Power efficiency	0.96	no data
Architecture	Kepler (2012−2018)	Tesla (2006−2010)
GPU code name	GK107	G86
Market segment	Workstation	Desktop
Release date	23 July 2013 (11 years ago)	17 April 2007 (17 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)	$3,299	$129

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

GRID K340 has 300% better value for money than 8500 GT.

Detailed specifications

General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores	384	16
Core clock speed	950 MHz	459 MHz
Number of transistors	1,270 million	210 million
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	80 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	225 Watt	30 Watt
Texture fill rate	30.40	3.672
Floating-point processing power	0.7296 TFLOPS	0.02938 TFLOPS
ROPs	8	4
TMUs	32	8

Form factor & compatibility

Information on compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

Interface	PCIe 3.0 x16	PCIe 1.0 x16
Length	267 mm	229 mm
Width	2-slot	1-slot
Supplementary power connectors	1x 8-pin	None
SLI options	-	+

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory type	GDDR5	GDDR3
Maximum RAM amount	1 GB	256 MB
Standard memory config per GPU	no data	256 MB
Memory bus width	64 Bit	128 Bit
Memory clock speed	900 MHz	400 MHz
Memory bandwidth	28.8 GB/s	12.8 GB/s

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on the reviewed GPUs. As a rule, data in this section is precise only for desktop reference ones (so-called Founders Edition for NVIDIA chips). OEM manufacturers may change the number and type of output ports, while for notebook cards availability of certain video outputs ports depends on the laptop model rather than on the card itself.

Display Connectors

No outputs

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

API compatibility

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX	12 (11_0)	11.1 (10_0)
Shader Model	5.1	4.0
OpenGL	4.6	2.1
OpenCL	1.2	1.1
Vulkan	1.1.126	N/A
CUDA	3.0	1.1

Gaming performance

Let's see how good the compared graphics cards are for gaming. Particular gaming benchmark results are measured in FPS.

Pros & cons summary

Performance score	3.10	0.36
Recency	23 July 2013	17 April 2007
Maximum RAM amount	1 GB	256 MB
Chip lithography	28 nm	80 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	225 Watt	30 Watt

GRID K340 has a 761.1% higher aggregate performance score, an age advantage of 6 years, a 300% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 185.7% more advanced lithography process.

8500 GT, on the other hand, has 650% lower power consumption.

The GRID K340 is our recommended choice as it beats the GeForce 8500 GT in performance tests.

Be aware that GRID K340 is a workstation graphics card while GeForce 8500 GT is a desktop one.

Should you still have questions concerning choice between the reviewed GPUs, ask them in Comments section, and we shall answer.