Intel Arc A310 vs NVIDIA GeForce 8500 GT

VS

Intel Arc A310

NVIDIA GeForce 8500 GT

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Arc A310 and 256MB VRAM GeForce 8500 GT to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

Intel Arc A310 's Advantages

Released 15 years and 6 months late

Boost Clock1750MHz

More VRAM (4GB vs 256GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (124.0GB/s vs 12.80GB/s)

752 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Arc A310 +9168%

2.688 TFLOPS

GeForce 8500 GT

0.029 TFLOPS

Arc A310

VS

GeForce 8500 GT

Graphics Card

Oct 2022

Release Date

Apr 2007

Alchemist

Generation

GeForce 8

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 1.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1750 MHz

Base Clock

-

1750 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1937 MHz

Memory Clock

400 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

256MB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR3

64bit

Memory Bus

128bit

124.0GB/s

Bandwidth

12.80GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

2

768

Shading Units

16

32

TMUs

8

16

ROPs

4

96

Tensor Cores

-

6

RT Cores

-

4 MB

L2 Cache

32 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

28.00 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

1.836 GPixel/s

56.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

3.672 GTexel/s

5.376 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

2.688 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

29.38 GFLOPS

672.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

30W

TDP

30W

200 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

4x mini-DisplayPort 2.0

Outputs

1x DVI 1x VGA 1x S-Video

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

DG2-128

GPU Name

G86

ACM-G11

GPU Variant

G86-300-A2

Generation 12.7

Architecture

Tesla

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

6 nm

Process Size

80 nm

7.2 billion

Transistors

0.21 billion

157 mm²

Die Size

127 mm²

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

11.1 (10_0)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3

3.0

OpenCL

1.1

1.3

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

1.1

6.6

Shader Model

4.0

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