NVIDIA GeForce 8500 GT vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 120 Mac Edition
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 256MB VRAM GeForce 8500 GT and 512MB VRAM GeForce GT 120 Mac Edition to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
NVIDIA GeForce 8500 GT 's Advantages
Lower TDP (30W vs 50W)
NVIDIA GeForce GT 120 Mac Edition 's Advantages
Released 1 years and 9 months late
More VRAM (512GB vs 256GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (25.60GB/s vs 12.80GB/s)
16 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce 8500 GT
0.029 TFLOPS
GeForce GT 120 Mac Edition
+210%
0.09 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Apr 2007
Release Date
Jan 2009
GeForce 8
Generation
GeForce 100
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 1.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
-
-
400 MHz
Memory Clock
800 MHz
Memory
256MB
Memory Size
512MB
GDDR3
Memory Type
GDDR3
128bit
Memory Bus
128bit
12.80GB/s
Bandwidth
25.60GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
2
SM Count
4
16
Shading Units
32
8
TMUs
16
4
ROPs
8
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
32 KB
L2 Cache
32 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
1.836 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
4.400 GPixel/s
3.672 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
8.800 GTexel/s
-
-
-
29.38 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
89.60 GFLOPS
-
-
-
Board Design
30W
TDP
50W
200 W
Suggested PSU
250 W
1x DVI
1x VGA
1x S-Video
Outputs
1x DVI
1x mini-DisplayPort
None
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
G86
GPU Name
G96C
G86-300-A2
GPU Variant
-
Tesla
Architecture
Tesla
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
80 nm
Process Size
55 nm
0.21 billion
Transistors
0.314 billion
127 mm²
Die Size
121 mm²
Graphics Features
11.1 (10_0)
DirectX
11.1 (10_0)
3.3
OpenGL
3.3
1.1
OpenCL
1.1
N/A
Vulkan
N/A
1.1
CUDA
1.1
4.0
Shader Model
4.0
