GeForce 8500 GT vs GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 256MB VRAM GeForce 8500 GT and 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X 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 225W)
GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X 's Advantages
Released 15 years and 6 months late
Boost Clock1665MHz
More VRAM (8GB vs 256GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (608.3GB/s vs 12.80GB/s)
4848 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce 8500 GT
29
GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X
+55762%
16200
Graphics Card
Apr 2007
Release Date
Oct 2022
GeForce 8
Generation
GeForce 30
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 1.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
Base Clock
1410 MHz
-
Boost Clock
1665 MHz
400 MHz
Memory Clock
1188 MHz
Memory
256MB
Memory Size
8GB
GDDR3
Memory Type
GDDR6X
128bit
Memory Bus
256bit
12.80GB/s
Bandwidth
608.3GB/s
Render Config
2
SM Count
38
16
Shading Units
4864
8
TMUs
152
4
ROPs
80
-
Tensor Cores
152
-
RT Cores
38
-
L1 Cache
128 KB (per SM)
32 KB
L2 Cache
4 MB
Theoretical Performance
1.836 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
133.2 GPixel/s
3.672 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
253.1 GTexel/s
-
FP16 (half)
16.20 TFLOPS
29.38 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
16.20 TFLOPS
-
FP64 (double)
253.1 GFLOPS
Board Design
30W
TDP
225W
200 W
Suggested PSU
550 W
1x DVI
1x VGA
1x S-Video
Outputs
1x HDMI 2.1
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
None
Power Connectors
1x 12-pin
Graphics Processor
G86
GPU Name
GA104
G86-300-A2
GPU Variant
GA104-202-A1
Tesla
Architecture
Ampere
TSMC
Foundry
Samsung
80 nm
Process Size
8 nm
0.21 billion
Transistors
17.4 billion
127 mm²
Die Size
392 mm²
Graphics Features
11.1 (10_0)
DirectX
12 Ultimate (12_2)
3.3
OpenGL
4.6
1.1
OpenCL
3.0
N/A
Vulkan
1.3
1.1
CUDA
8.6
4.0
Shader Model
6.7
