NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680 vs NVIDIA GeForce 8500 GT
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 680 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 680 's Advantages
Released 4 years and 11 months late
Boost Clock1058MHz
More VRAM (2GB vs 256GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (192.3GB/s vs 12.80GB/s)
1520 additional rendering cores
NVIDIA GeForce 8500 GT 's Advantages
Lower TDP (30W vs 195W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GTX 680
+11106%
3.25 TFLOPS
GeForce 8500 GT
0.029 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Mar 2012
Release Date
Apr 2007
GeForce 600
Generation
GeForce 8
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 1.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1006 MHz
Base Clock
-
1058 MHz
Boost Clock
-
1502 MHz
Memory Clock
400 MHz
Memory
2GB
Memory Size
256MB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR3
256bit
Memory Bus
128bit
192.3GB/s
Bandwidth
12.80GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
-
SM Count
2
1536
Shading Units
16
128
TMUs
8
32
ROPs
4
-
-
-
-
-
-
16 KB (per SMX)
L1 Cache
-
512 KB
L2 Cache
32 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
33.86 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
1.836 GPixel/s
135.4 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
3.672 GTexel/s
-
-
-
3.250 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
29.38 GFLOPS
135.4 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
-
Board Design
195W
TDP
30W
450 W
Suggested PSU
200 W
2x DVI
1x HDMI 1.4a
1x DisplayPort 1.2
Outputs
1x DVI
1x VGA
1x S-Video
2x 6-pin
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
GK104
GPU Name
G86
GK104-400-A2
GPU Variant
G86-300-A2
Kepler
Architecture
Tesla
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
28 nm
Process Size
80 nm
3.54 billion
Transistors
0.21 billion
294 mm²
Die Size
127 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (11_0)
DirectX
11.1 (10_0)
4.6
OpenGL
3.3
3.0
OpenCL
1.1
1.1
Vulkan
N/A
3.0
CUDA
1.1
5.1
Shader Model
4.0
