NVIDIA GeForce 8500 GT vs NVIDIA CMP 170HX

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We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 256MB VRAM GeForce 8500 GT and 16GB VRAM CMP 170HX to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce 8500 GT 's Advantages

Lower TDP (30W vs 250W)

NVIDIA CMP 170HX 's Advantages

Released 14 years and 5 months late

Boost Clock1410MHz

Larger VRAM bandwidth (1493GB/s vs 12.80GB/s)

4464 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce 8500 GT

0.029 TFLOPS

CMP 170HX +43451%

12.63 TFLOPS

GeForce 8500 GT

VS

CMP 170HX

Graphics Card

Apr 2007

Release Date

Sep 2021

GeForce 8

Generation

Mining GPUs

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 1.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x4

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1140 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1410 MHz

400 MHz

Memory Clock

1458 MHz

Memory

256MB

Memory Size

16GB

GDDR3

Memory Type

HBM2e

128bit

Memory Bus

4096bit

12.80GB/s

Bandwidth

1493GB/s

Render Config

2

SM Count

70

-

Compute Units

-

16

Shading Units

4480

8

TMUs

280

4

ROPs

128

-

Tensor Cores

280

-

RT Cores

-

L1 Cache

192 KB (per SM)

32 KB

L2 Cache

8 MB

Theoretical Performance

1.836 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

180.5 GPixel/s

3.672 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

394.8 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

50.53 TFLOPS

29.38 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

12.63 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

6.317 TFLOPS

Graphics Processor

G86

GPU Name

GA100

G86-300-A2

GPU Variant

GA100-105F-A1

Tesla

Architecture

Ampere

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

80 nm

Process Size

7 nm

0.21 billion

Transistors

54.2 billion

127 mm²

Die Size

826 mm²

Board Design

30W

TDP

250W

200 W

Suggested PSU

600 W

1x DVI 1x VGA 1x S-Video

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

2x 8-pin

Graphics Features

11.1 (10_0)

DirectX

N/A

3.3

OpenGL

N/A

1.1

OpenCL

3.0

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

1.1

CUDA

8.0

4.0

Shader Model

N/A

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