NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480 Core 512 vs NVIDIA GeForce 8500 GT

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480 Core 512 NVIDIA GeForce 8500 GT

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1536MB VRAM GeForce GTX 480 Core 512 and 256MB VRAM GeForce 8500 GT to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480 Core 512 's Advantages

More VRAM (1536GB vs 256GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (134.4GB/s vs 12.80GB/s)

496 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce 8500 GT 's Advantages

Lower TDP (30W vs 375W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 480 Core 512 +3617%

1.078 TFLOPS

GeForce 8500 GT

0.029 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 480 Core 512

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GeForce 8500 GT

Graphics Card

Unknown

Release Date

Apr 2007

GeForce 400

Generation

GeForce 8

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 1.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

700 MHz

Memory Clock

400 MHz

Memory

1536MB

Memory Size

256MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

384bit

Memory Bus

128bit

134.4GB/s

Bandwidth

12.80GB/s

Render Config

16

SM Count

2

-

Compute Units

-

512

Shading Units

16

64

TMUs

8

48

ROPs

4

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

-

768 KB

L2 Cache

32 KB

Theoretical Performance

16.86 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

1.836 GPixel/s

33.73 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

3.672 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

1078 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

29.38 GFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

GF100

GPU Name

G86

GF100-ES-DT1-A2

GPU Variant

G86-300-A2

Fermi

Architecture

Tesla

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

80 nm

3.1 billion

Transistors

0.21 billion

529 mm²

Die Size

127 mm²

Board Design

375W

TDP

30W

750 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

2x DVI 1x mini-HDMI 1.3a

Outputs

1x DVI 1x VGA 1x S-Video

2x 8-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

12 (11_0)

DirectX

11.1 (10_0)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3

1.1

OpenCL

1.1

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

2.0

CUDA

1.1

5.1

Shader Model

4.0

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