GeForce 8500 GT vs GeForce 9300 SE
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 256MB VRAM GeForce 8500 GT and 256MB VRAM GeForce 9300 SE to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
GeForce 8500 GT 's Advantages
Larger VRAM bandwidth (12.80GB/s vs 6.400GB/s)
8 additional rendering cores
GeForce 9300 SE 's Advantages
Released 1 years and 2 months late
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce 8500 GT
+45%
29
GeForce 9300 SE
20
Graphics Card
Apr 2007
Release Date
Jun 2008
GeForce 8
Generation
GeForce 9
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 1.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
400 MHz
Memory Clock
400 MHz
Memory
256MB
Memory Size
256MB
GDDR3
Memory Type
DDR2
128bit
Memory Bus
64bit
12.80GB/s
Bandwidth
6.400GB/s
Render Config
2
SM Count
1
16
Shading Units
8
8
TMUs
4
4
ROPs
4
32 KB
L2 Cache
16 KB
Theoretical Performance
1.836 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
2.160 GPixel/s
3.672 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
2.160 GTexel/s
29.38 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
20.80 GFLOPS
Board Design
30W
TDP
Unknown
200 W
Suggested PSU
200 W
1x DVI
1x VGA
1x S-Video
Outputs
1x DVI
1x HDMI
1x VGA
None
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
G86
GPU Name
G98S
G86-300-A2
GPU Variant
-
Tesla
Architecture
Tesla
TSMC
Foundry
UMC
80 nm
Process Size
65 nm
0.21 billion
Transistors
0.21 billion
127 mm²
Die Size
86 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
