GeForce 8500 GT vs Arc A770
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 256MB VRAM GeForce 8500 GT and 16GB VRAM Arc A770 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
GeForce 8500 GT 's Advantages
Lower TDP (30W vs 225W)
Arc A770 's Advantages
Released 15 years and 6 months late
Boost Clock2400MHz
More VRAM (16GB vs 256GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (512.0GB/s vs 12.80GB/s)
4080 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce 8500 GT
29
Arc A770
+67693%
19660
Graphics Card
Apr 2007
Release Date
Oct 2022
GeForce 8
Generation
Alchemist(Arc 7)
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 1.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
Base Clock
2100 MHz
-
Boost Clock
2400 MHz
400 MHz
Memory Clock
2000 MHz
Memory
256MB
Memory Size
16GB
GDDR3
Memory Type
GDDR6
128bit
Memory Bus
256bit
12.80GB/s
Bandwidth
512.0GB/s
Render Config
2
SM Count
-
16
Shading Units
4096
8
TMUs
256
4
ROPs
128
-
Tensor Cores
512
-
RT Cores
32
32 KB
L2 Cache
16 MB
Theoretical Performance
1.836 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
307.2 GPixel/s
3.672 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
614.4 GTexel/s
-
FP16 (half)
39.32 TFLOPS
29.38 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
19.66 TFLOPS
-
FP64 (double)
2.458 TFLOPS
Board Design
30W
TDP
225W
200 W
Suggested PSU
550 W
1x DVI
1x VGA
1x S-Video
Outputs
1x HDMI 2.13x DisplayPort 2.0
None
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Graphics Processor
G86
GPU Name
DG2-512
G86-300-A2
GPU Variant
ACM-G10
Tesla
Architecture
Generation 12.7
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
80 nm
Process Size
6 nm
0.21 billion
Transistors
21.7 billion
127 mm²
Die Size
406 mm²
Graphics Features
11.1 (10_0)
DirectX
12 Ultimate (12_2)
3.3
OpenGL
4.6
1.1
OpenCL
3.0
N/A
Vulkan
1.3
1.1
CUDA
-
4.0
Shader Model
6.6
