GeForce 8500 GT vs GeForce GTX 1080 11Gbps
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 256MB VRAM GeForce 8500 GT and 8GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1080 11Gbps 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 180W)
GeForce GTX 1080 11Gbps 's Advantages
Released 10 years late
Boost Clock1733MHz
More VRAM (8GB vs 256GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (352.3GB/s vs 12.80GB/s)
2544 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce 8500 GT
29
GeForce GTX 1080 11Gbps
+30496%
8873
Graphics Card
Apr 2007
Release Date
Apr 2017
GeForce 8
Generation
GeForce 10
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 1.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
Base Clock
1607 MHz
-
Boost Clock
1733 MHz
400 MHz
Memory Clock
1376 MHz
Memory
256MB
Memory Size
8GB
GDDR3
Memory Type
GDDR5X
128bit
Memory Bus
256bit
12.80GB/s
Bandwidth
352.3GB/s
Render Config
2
SM Count
20
16
Shading Units
2560
8
TMUs
160
4
ROPs
64
-
L1 Cache
48 KB (per SM)
32 KB
L2 Cache
2 MB
Theoretical Performance
1.836 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
110.9 GPixel/s
3.672 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
277.3 GTexel/s
-
FP16 (half)
138.6 GFLOPS
29.38 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
8.873 TFLOPS
-
FP64 (double)
277.3 GFLOPS
Board Design
30W
TDP
180W
200 W
Suggested PSU
450 W
1x DVI
1x VGA
1x S-Video
Outputs
1x DVI
1x HDMI 2.0
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
None
Power Connectors
1x 8-pin
Graphics Processor
G86
GPU Name
GP104
G86-300-A2
GPU Variant
GP104-410-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
