GeForce 8500 GT vs GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB GP104
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 256MB VRAM GeForce 8500 GT and 3GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB GP104 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 120W)
GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB GP104 's Advantages
Released 9 years and 8 months late
Boost Clock1708MHz
More VRAM (3GB vs 256GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (192.2GB/s vs 12.80GB/s)
1136 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce 8500 GT
29
GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB GP104
+13468%
3935
Graphics Card
Apr 2007
Release Date
Dec 2016
GeForce 8
Generation
GeForce 10
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 1.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
Base Clock
1506 MHz
-
Boost Clock
1708 MHz
400 MHz
Memory Clock
2002 MHz
Memory
256MB
Memory Size
3GB
GDDR3
Memory Type
GDDR5
128bit
Memory Bus
192bit
12.80GB/s
Bandwidth
192.2GB/s
Render Config
2
SM Count
9
16
Shading Units
1152
8
TMUs
72
4
ROPs
48
-
L1 Cache
48 KB (per SM)
32 KB
L2 Cache
1536 KB
Theoretical Performance
1.836 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
81.98 GPixel/s
3.672 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
123.0 GTexel/s
-
FP16 (half)
61.49 GFLOPS
29.38 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
3.935 TFLOPS
-
FP64 (double)
123.0 GFLOPS
Board Design
30W
TDP
120W
200 W
Suggested PSU
300 W
1x DVI
1x VGA
1x S-Video
Outputs
1x DVI
1x HDMI 2.0
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
None
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
G86
GPU Name
GP104
G86-300-A2
GPU Variant
GP104-140-KA-A1
Tesla
Architecture
Pascal
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
80 nm
Process Size
16 nm
0.21 billion
Transistors
7.2 billion
127 mm²
Die Size
314 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
