GeForce 8500 GT vs GeForce GT 1030 DDR4
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 256MB VRAM GeForce 8500 GT and 2GB VRAM GeForce GT 1030 DDR4 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
GeForce GT 1030 DDR4 's Advantages
Released 10 years and 11 months late
Boost Clock1379MHz
More VRAM (2GB vs 256GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (16.80GB/s vs 12.80GB/s)
368 additional rendering cores
Lower TDP (20W vs 30W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce 8500 GT
29
GeForce GT 1030 DDR4
+3551%
1059
Graphics Card
Apr 2007
Release Date
Mar 2018
GeForce 8
Generation
GeForce 10
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 1.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x4
Clock Speeds
-
Base Clock
1152 MHz
-
Boost Clock
1379 MHz
400 MHz
Memory Clock
1050 MHz
Memory
256MB
Memory Size
2GB
GDDR3
Memory Type
DDR4
128bit
Memory Bus
64bit
12.80GB/s
Bandwidth
16.80GB/s
Render Config
2
SM Count
3
16
Shading Units
384
8
TMUs
24
4
ROPs
16
-
L1 Cache
48 KB (per SM)
32 KB
L2 Cache
512 KB
Theoretical Performance
1.836 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
22.06 GPixel/s
3.672 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
33.10 GTexel/s
-
FP16 (half)
16.55 GFLOPS
29.38 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
1059 GFLOPS
-
FP64 (double)
33.10 GFLOPS
Board Design
30W
TDP
20W
200 W
Suggested PSU
200 W
1x DVI
1x VGA
1x S-Video
Outputs
1x DVI
1x HDMI 2.0
None
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
G86
GPU Name
GP108
G86-300-A2
GPU Variant
GP108-310-A1
Tesla
Architecture
Pascal
TSMC
Foundry
Samsung
80 nm
Process Size
14 nm
0.21 billion
Transistors
1.8 billion
127 mm²
Die Size
74 mm²
Graphics Features
11.1 (10_0)
DirectX
12 (12_1)
3.3
OpenGL
4.6
1.1
OpenCL
3.0
N/A
Vulkan
1.3
1.1
CUDA
6.1
4.0
Shader Model
6.4
