NVIDIA GeForce 8500 GT vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070

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NVIDIA GeForce 8500 GT NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 256MB VRAM GeForce 8500 GT and 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 4070 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 200W)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 's Advantages

Released 16 years late

Boost Clock2475MHz

Larger VRAM bandwidth (504.2GB/s vs 12.80GB/s)

5872 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce 8500 GT

0.029 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 4070 +100417%

29.15 TFLOPS

GeForce 8500 GT

VS

GeForce RTX 4070

Graphics Card

Apr 2007

Release Date

Apr 2023

GeForce 8

Generation

GeForce 40

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 1.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1920 MHz

-

Boost Clock

2475 MHz

400 MHz

Memory Clock

1313 MHz

Memory

256MB

Memory Size

12GB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR6X

128bit

Memory Bus

192bit

12.80GB/s

Bandwidth

504.2GB/s

Render Config

2

SM Count

46

-

Compute Units

-

16

Shading Units

5888

8

TMUs

184

4

ROPs

64

-

Tensor Cores

184

-

RT Cores

46

-

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

32 KB

L2 Cache

36 MB

Theoretical Performance

1.836 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

158.4 GPixel/s

3.672 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

455.4 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

29.15 TFLOPS

29.38 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

29.15 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

455.4 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

G86

GPU Name

AD104

G86-300-A2

GPU Variant

AD104-250-A1

Tesla

Architecture

Ada Lovelace

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

80 nm

Process Size

5 nm

0.21 billion

Transistors

35.8 billion

127 mm²

Die Size

295 mm²

Board Design

30W

TDP

200W

200 W

Suggested PSU

550 W

1x DVI 1x VGA 1x S-Video

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

None

Power Connectors

1x 16-pin

Graphics Features

11.1 (10_0)

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

3.3

OpenGL

4.6

1.1

OpenCL

3.0

N/A

Vulkan

1.3

1.1

CUDA

8.9

4.0

Shader Model

6.7

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