NVIDIA GeForce 8500 GT vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660

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NVIDIA GeForce 8500 GT NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 256MB VRAM GeForce 8500 GT and 6GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1660 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 120W)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 's Advantages

Released 11 years and 11 months late

Boost Clock1785MHz

Larger VRAM bandwidth (192.1GB/s vs 12.80GB/s)

1392 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce 8500 GT

0.029 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1660 +17234%

5.027 TFLOPS

GeForce 8500 GT

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GeForce GTX 1660

Graphics Card

Apr 2007

Release Date

Mar 2019

GeForce 8

Generation

GeForce 16

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 1.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1530 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1785 MHz

400 MHz

Memory Clock

2001 MHz

Memory

256MB

Memory Size

6GB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

192bit

12.80GB/s

Bandwidth

192.1GB/s

Render Config

2

SM Count

22

-

Compute Units

-

16

Shading Units

1408

8

TMUs

88

4

ROPs

48

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

32 KB

L2 Cache

1536 KB

Theoretical Performance

1.836 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

85.68 GPixel/s

3.672 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

157.1 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

10.05 TFLOPS

29.38 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

5.027 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

157.1 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

G86

GPU Name

TU116

G86-300-A2

GPU Variant

TU116-300-A1

Tesla

Architecture

Turing

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

80 nm

Process Size

12 nm

0.21 billion

Transistors

6.6 billion

127 mm²

Die Size

284 mm²

Board Design

30W

TDP

120W

200 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

1x DVI 1x VGA 1x S-Video

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0 1x DisplayPort 1.4a

None

Power Connectors

1x 8-pin

Graphics Features

11.1 (10_0)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

3.3

OpenGL

4.6

1.1

OpenCL

3.0

N/A

Vulkan

1.3

1.1

CUDA

7.5

4.0

Shader Model

6.6

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