GeForce 8500 GT vs GeForce GTX 285 Mac Edition
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 256MB VRAM GeForce 8500 GT and 1024MB VRAM GeForce GTX 285 Mac Edition 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 204W)
GeForce GTX 285 Mac Edition 's Advantages
Released 1 years and 9 months late
More VRAM (1024GB vs 256GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (159.0GB/s vs 12.80GB/s)
224 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce 8500 GT
29
GeForce GTX 285 Mac Edition
+2341%
708
Graphics Card
Apr 2007
Release Date
Jan 2009
GeForce 8
Generation
GeForce 200
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 1.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
400 MHz
Memory Clock
1242 MHz
Memory
256MB
Memory Size
1024MB
GDDR3
Memory Type
GDDR3
128bit
Memory Bus
512bit
12.80GB/s
Bandwidth
159.0GB/s
Render Config
2
SM Count
30
16
Shading Units
240
8
TMUs
80
4
ROPs
32
32 KB
L2 Cache
256 KB
Theoretical Performance
1.836 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
20.74 GPixel/s
3.672 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
51.84 GTexel/s
29.38 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
708.5 GFLOPS
-
FP64 (double)
88.56 GFLOPS
Board Design
30W
TDP
204W
200 W
Suggested PSU
550 W
1x DVI
1x VGA
1x S-Video
Outputs
2x DVI
1x S-Video
None
Power Connectors
2x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
G86
GPU Name
GT200B
G86-300-A2
GPU Variant
G200-350-B3
Tesla
Architecture
Tesla 2.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
80 nm
Process Size
55 nm
0.21 billion
Transistors
1.4 billion
127 mm²
Die Size
470 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
1.3
4.0
Shader Model
4.0
