NVIDIA GeForce 8500 GT: specs and benchmarks

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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.

We have no data on GeForce 8500 GT benchmark results.

General info

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

Place in performance rankingnot rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100
ArchitectureTesla (2006−2010)
GPU code nameG86
Market segmentDesktop
Release date17 April 2007 (16 years old)
Launch price (MSRP)$129
Current price$231 (1.8x MSRP)of 168889 (A100 PCIe 80 GB)

Technical specs

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 cores16of 20480 (Data Center GPU Max NEXT)
Core clock speed459 MHzof 2610 (Radeon RX 6500 XT)
Number of transistors210 millionof 14400 (GeForce GTX 1070 SLI Mobile)
Manufacturing process technology80 nmof 4 (GeForce RTX 4080)
Power consumption (TDP)30 Wattof 2400 (Data Center GPU Max Subsystem)
Texture fill rate3.6 billion/secof 969.9 (H100 SXM5 96 GB)
Floating-point performance29.376 gflopsof 16384 (Radeon Pro Duo)

Size and 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).

InterfacePCIe 1.0 x16
Length229 mm
Width1-slot
Supplementary power connectorsNone
SLI options+

Memory

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 typeGDDR3
Maximum RAM amount256 MBof 192 (Radeon Instinct MI300X)
Standard memory config per GPU256 MB
Memory bus width128 Bitof 19000 (GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB)
Memory clock speed800 MHzof 23000 (GeForce RTX 4080 SUPER)
Memory bandwidth12.8 GB/sof 3276 (Aldebaran)

Video outputs and ports

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 Connectors1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video

API support

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

DirectX11.1 (10_0)
Shader Model4.0
OpenGL2.1of 4.6 (GeForce RTX 4090)
OpenCL1.1
VulkanN/A
CUDA1.1

Benchmark performance

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


Passmark

This is the most ubiquitous GPU benchmark, part of Passmark PerformanceTest suite. It gives the graphics card a thorough evaluation under various types of load, providing four separate benchmarks for Direct3D versions 9, 10, 11 and 12 (the last being done in 4K resolution if possible), and few more tests engaging DirectCompute capabilities.

Benchmark coverage: 25%

8500 GT 129

AMD equivalent

According to our data, the closest AMD alternative to GeForce 8500 GT is Radeon HD 8310E.

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