GeForce 8500 GT vs HD Graphics (Sandy Bridge)

Place in the ranking	1298	1265
Place by popularity	not in top-100	not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation	no data	0.01
Power efficiency	no data	0.89
Architecture	Gen. 6 Sandy Bridge (2011)	Tesla (2006−2010)
GPU code name	Sandy Bridge	G86
Market segment	Laptop	Desktop
Release date	1 May 2011 (13 years ago)	17 April 2007 (17 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)	no data	$129

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

no data

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	6	16
Core clock speed	350 MHz	459 MHz
Boost clock speed	1100 MHz	no data
Number of transistors	no data	210 million
Manufacturing process technology	32 nm	80 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	no data	30 Watt
Texture fill rate	no data	3.672
Floating-point processing power	no data	0.02938 TFLOPS
ROPs	no data	4
TMUs	no data	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	no data	PCIe 1.0 x16
Length	no data	229 mm
Width	no data	1-slot
Supplementary power connectors	no data	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	no data	GDDR3
Maximum RAM amount	no data	256 MB
Standard memory config per GPU	no data	256 MB
Memory bus width	64/128 Bit	128 Bit
Memory clock speed	no data	400 MHz
Memory bandwidth	no data	12.8 GB/s
Shared memory	+	-

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 data

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

API compatibility

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

DirectX	10.1	11.1 (10_0)
Shader Model	no data	4.0
OpenGL	no data	2.1
OpenCL	no data	1.1
Vulkan	-	N/A
CUDA	-	1.1

Gaming performance

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

Average FPS across all PC games

Here are the average frames per second in a large set of popular games across different resolutions:

Full HD

−12.5%

9−10
+12.5%

Cost per frame, $

1080p

no data

14.33

FPS performance in popular games

Full HD
Low Preset

Counter-Strike 2	8−9 −12.5%	9−10 +12.5%
Cyberpunk 2077	2−3 +0%	2−3 +0%

Full HD
Medium Preset

Counter-Strike 2	8−9 −12.5%	9−10 +12.5%
Cyberpunk 2077	2−3 +0%	2−3 +0%
Forza Horizon 4	5−6 +0%	5−6 +0%
Red Dead Redemption 2	4−5 +0%	4−5 +0%

Full HD
High Preset

Counter-Strike 2	8−9 −12.5%	9−10 +12.5%
Cyberpunk 2077	2−3 +0%	2−3 +0%
Far Cry 5	6−7 +0%	6−7 +0%
Forza Horizon 4	5−6 +0%	5−6 +0%
PLAYERUNKNOWN'S BATTLEGROUNDS	7−8 −14.3%	8−9 +14.3%
Red Dead Redemption 2	4−5 +0%	4−5 +0%
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt	5−6 +0%	5−6 +0%
World of Tanks	10 +0%	10−11 +0%

Full HD
Ultra Preset

Counter-Strike 2	8−9 −12.5%	9−10 +12.5%
Cyberpunk 2077	2−3 +0%	2−3 +0%
Far Cry 5	6−7 +0%	6−7 +0%
Forza Horizon 4	5−6 +0%	5−6 +0%
PLAYERUNKNOWN'S BATTLEGROUNDS	7−8 −14.3%	8−9 +14.3%

1440p
High Preset

PLAYERUNKNOWN'S BATTLEGROUNDS

2−3

+0%

2−3
+0%

1440p
Ultra Preset

Counter-Strike 2	9−10 −11.1%	10−11 +11.1%
Cyberpunk 2077	2−3 +0%	2−3 +0%
Far Cry 5	4−5 +0%	4−5 +0%
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt	2−3 +0%	2−3 +0%
Valorant	5−6 +0%	5−6 +0%

4K
High Preset

Dota 2	14−16 −6.7%	16−18 +6.7%
Grand Theft Auto V	14−16 −6.7%	16−18 +6.7%
PLAYERUNKNOWN'S BATTLEGROUNDS	1−2 +0%	1−2 +0%
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt	14−16 −6.7%	16−18 +6.7%