GeForce 8500 GT vs GeForce 9800 GT
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 256MB VRAM GeForce 8500 GT and 512MB VRAM GeForce 9800 GT to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
GeForce 8500 GT 's Advantages
Lower TDP (30W vs 125W)
GeForce 9800 GT 's Advantages
Released 1 years and 3 months late
More VRAM (512GB vs 256GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (57.60GB/s vs 12.80GB/s)
96 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce 8500 GT
29
GeForce 9800 GT
+1058%
336
Graphics Card
Apr 2007
Release Date
Jul 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
900 MHz
Memory
256MB
Memory Size
512MB
GDDR3
Memory Type
GDDR3
128bit
Memory Bus
256bit
12.80GB/s
Bandwidth
57.60GB/s
Render Config
2
SM Count
14
16
Shading Units
112
8
TMUs
56
4
ROPs
16
32 KB
L2 Cache
64 KB
Theoretical Performance
1.836 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
9.600 GPixel/s
3.672 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
33.60 GTexel/s
29.38 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
336.0 GFLOPS
Board Design
30W
TDP
125W
200 W
Suggested PSU
300 W
1x DVI
1x VGA
1x S-Video
Outputs
2x DVI
1x S-Video
None
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
G86
GPU Name
G92B
G86-300-A2
GPU Variant
G92-280-B1
Tesla
Architecture
Tesla
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
80 nm
Process Size
55 nm
0.21 billion
Transistors
0.754 billion
127 mm²
Die Size
260 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
