NVIDIA GeForce 8500 GT vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680

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NVIDIA GeForce 8500 GT NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 256MB VRAM GeForce 8500 GT and 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 680 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 195W)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 11 months late

Boost Clock1058MHz

Larger VRAM bandwidth (192.3GB/s vs 12.80GB/s)

1520 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce 8500 GT

0.029 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 680 +11106%

3.25 TFLOPS

GeForce 8500 GT

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GeForce GTX 680

Graphics Card

Apr 2007

Release Date

Mar 2012

GeForce 8

Generation

GeForce 600

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 1.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1006 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1058 MHz

400 MHz

Memory Clock

1502 MHz

Memory

256MB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

12.80GB/s

Bandwidth

192.3GB/s

Render Config

2

SM Count

-

Compute Units

-

16

Shading Units

1536

8

TMUs

128

4

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

L1 Cache

16 KB (per SMX)

32 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

Theoretical Performance

1.836 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

33.86 GPixel/s

3.672 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

135.4 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

29.38 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

3.250 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

135.4 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

G86

GPU Name

GK104

G86-300-A2

GPU Variant

GK104-400-A2

Tesla

Architecture

Kepler

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

80 nm

Process Size

28 nm

0.21 billion

Transistors

3.54 billion

127 mm²

Die Size

294 mm²

Board Design

30W

TDP

195W

200 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

1x DVI 1x VGA 1x S-Video

Outputs

2x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 1x DisplayPort 1.2

None

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Features

11.1 (10_0)

DirectX

12 (11_0)

3.3

OpenGL

4.6

1.1

OpenCL

3.0

N/A

Vulkan

1.1

CUDA

3.0

4.0

Shader Model

5.1

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