GeForce 8500 GT vs GeForce GT 1010
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 256MB VRAM GeForce 8500 GT and 2GB VRAM GeForce GT 1010 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
GeForce GT 1010 's Advantages
Released 13 years and 9 months late
Boost Clock1468MHz
More VRAM (2GB vs 256GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (48.06GB/s vs 12.80GB/s)
240 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce 8500 GT
29
GeForce GT 1010
+2493%
752
Graphics Card
Apr 2007
Release Date
Jan 2021
GeForce 8
Generation
GeForce 10
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 1.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x4
Clock Speeds
-
Base Clock
1228 MHz
-
Boost Clock
1468 MHz
400 MHz
Memory Clock
1502 MHz
Memory
256MB
Memory Size
2GB
GDDR3
Memory Type
GDDR5
128bit
Memory Bus
64bit
12.80GB/s
Bandwidth
48.06GB/s
Render Config
2
SM Count
2
16
Shading Units
256
8
TMUs
16
4
ROPs
8
-
L1 Cache
16 KB (per SM)
32 KB
L2 Cache
256 KB
Theoretical Performance
1.836 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
11.74 GPixel/s
3.672 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
23.49 GTexel/s
29.38 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
751.6 GFLOPS
-
FP64 (double)
31.32 GFLOPS
Board Design
30W
TDP
30W
200 W
Suggested PSU
200 W
1x DVI
1x VGA
1x S-Video
Outputs
1x DVI
1x mini-HDMI 2.0
None
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
G86
GPU Name
GP108
G86-300-A2
GPU Variant
GP108-200-A1
Tesla
Architecture
Pascal
TSMC
Foundry
Samsung
80 nm
Process Size
14 nm
0.21 billion
Transistors
1.8 billion
127 mm²
Die Size
74 mm²
Graphics Features
11.1 (10_0)
DirectX
12 (12_1)
3.3
OpenGL
4.6
1.1
OpenCL
3.0
N/A
Vulkan
1.3
1.1
CUDA
6.1
4.0
Shader Model
6.4
