HD Graphics 12EU vs GeForce 8500 GT

Primary details

GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.

Place in the ranking	1325	not rated
Place by popularity	not in top-100	not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation	0.01	no data
Power efficiency	1.05	no data
Architecture	Tesla (2006−2010)	Generation 5.75 (2010)
GPU code name	G86	Ironlake
Market segment	Desktop	Desktop
Release date	17 April 2007 (19 years ago)	10 January 2010 (16 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)	$129	no data

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

The higher the ratio, the better. We use the manufacturer's recommended prices.

Performance to price scatter graph

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	16	96
Core clock speed	459 MHz	533 MHz
Number of transistors	210 million	177 million
Manufacturing process technology	80 nm	45 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	30 Watt	35 Watt
Texture fill rate	3.672	6.396
Floating-point processing power	0.02938 TFLOPS	0.1023 TFLOPS
ROPs	4	2
TMUs	8	12
L2 Cache	32 KB	no data

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 1.0 x16	QPI
Length	229 mm	no data
Width	1-slot	IGP
Supplementary power connectors	None	no data
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	GDDR3	System Shared
Maximum RAM amount	256 MB	System Shared
Standard memory config per GPU	256 MB	no data
Memory bus width	128 Bit	System Shared
Memory clock speed	400 MHz	System Shared
Memory bandwidth	12.8 GB/s	no data
Shared memory	-	+

Connectivity and outputs

This section shows the types and number of video connectors on each GPU. The data applies specifically to desktop reference models (for example, NVIDIA’s Founders Edition). OEM partners often modify both the number and types of ports. On notebook GPUs, video‐output options are determined by the laptop’s design rather than the graphics chip itself.

Display Connectors

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

Motherboard Dependent

API and SDK support

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

DirectX	11.1 (10_0)	10.1
Shader Model	4.0	4.1
OpenGL	2.1	2.1
OpenCL	1.1	N/A
Vulkan	N/A	N/A
CUDA	1.1	-

Pros & cons summary

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Recency	17 April 2007	10 January 2010
Chip lithography	80 nm	45 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	30 Watt	35 Watt