GeForce 8500 GT vs GeForce RTX 4070 GDDR6
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 256MB VRAM GeForce 8500 GT and 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 4070 GDDR6 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 200W)
GeForce RTX 4070 GDDR6 's Advantages
Released 17 years and 4 months late
Boost Clock2475MHz
More VRAM (12GB vs 256GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (480.0GB/s vs 12.80GB/s)
5872 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce 8500 GT
29
GeForce RTX 4070 GDDR6
+100417%
29150
Graphics Card
Apr 2007
Release Date
Aug 2024
GeForce 8
Generation
GeForce 40
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 1.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
Base Clock
1920 MHz
-
Boost Clock
2475 MHz
400 MHz
Memory Clock
2500 MHz
Memory
256MB
Memory Size
12GB
GDDR3
Memory Type
GDDR6
128bit
Memory Bus
192bit
12.80GB/s
Bandwidth
480.0GB/s
Render Config
2
SM Count
46
16
Shading Units
5888
8
TMUs
184
4
ROPs
64
-
Tensor Cores
184
-
RT Cores
46
-
L1 Cache
128 KB (per SM)
32 KB
L2 Cache
36 MB
Theoretical Performance
1.836 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
158.4 GPixel/s
3.672 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
455.4 GTexel/s
-
FP16 (half)
29.15 TFLOPS
29.38 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
29.15 TFLOPS
-
FP64 (double)
455.4 GFLOPS
Board Design
30W
TDP
200W
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 16-pin
Graphics Processor
G86
GPU Name
AD104
G86-300-A2
GPU Variant
AD104-2XX-A1
Tesla
Architecture
Ada Lovelace
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
80 nm
Process Size
5 nm
0.21 billion
Transistors
35.8 billion
127 mm²
Die Size
294 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
8.9
4.0
Shader Model
6.8
