NVIDIA GeForce 8500 GT vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 520 OEM

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NVIDIA GeForce 8500 GT NVIDIA GeForce GT 520 OEM

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 256MB VRAM GeForce 8500 GT and 1024MB VRAM GeForce GT 520 OEM to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce 8500 GT 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (12.80GB/s vs 8.000GB/s)

NVIDIA GeForce GT 520 OEM 's Advantages

Released 5 years and 4 months late

More VRAM (1024GB vs 256GB)

32 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (29W vs 30W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce 8500 GT

0.029 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 520 OEM +365%

0.135 TFLOPS

GeForce 8500 GT

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GeForce GT 520 OEM

Graphics Card

Apr 2007

Release Date

Aug 2012

GeForce 8

Generation

GeForce 500

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 1.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

400 MHz

Memory Clock

500 MHz

Memory

256MB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR3

Memory Type

DDR3

128bit

Memory Bus

64bit

12.80GB/s

Bandwidth

8.000GB/s

Render Config

2

SM Count

2

-

Compute Units

-

16

Shading Units

48

8

TMUs

8

4

ROPs

4

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

32 KB

L2 Cache

128 KB

Theoretical Performance

1.836 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

2.356 GPixel/s

3.672 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

4.712 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

29.38 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

134.6 GFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

11.22 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

G86

GPU Name

GF119

G86-300-A2

GPU Variant

GF119 B1

Tesla

Architecture

Fermi 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

80 nm

Process Size

40 nm

0.21 billion

Transistors

0.292 billion

127 mm²

Die Size

79 mm²

Board Design

30W

TDP

29W

200 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

1x DVI 1x VGA 1x S-Video

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.3a 1x VGA

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

11.1 (10_0)

DirectX

12 (11_0)

3.3

OpenGL

4.6

1.1

OpenCL

1.1

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

1.1

CUDA

2.1

4.0

Shader Model

5.1

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