NVIDIA GeForce 8500 GT vs 3dfx Voodoo4-2 4200 AGP

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NVIDIA GeForce 8500 GT 3dfx Voodoo4-2 4200 AGP

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 256MB VRAM GeForce 8500 GT and 16MB VRAM Voodoo4 2 4200 AGP to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce 8500 GT 's Advantages

More VRAM (256GB vs 16GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (12.80GB/s vs 2.288GB/s)

16 additional rendering cores

3dfx Voodoo4-2 4200 AGP 's Advantages

Lower TDP (15W vs 30W)

Score

GeForce 8500 GT

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Voodoo4 2 4200 AGP

Graphics Card

Apr 2007

Release Date

Unknown

GeForce 8

Generation

Voodoo4-2

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 1.0 x16

Bus Interface

AGP 4x

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

400 MHz

Memory Clock

143 MHz

Memory

256MB

Memory Size

16MB

GDDR3

Memory Type

DDR

128bit

Memory Bus

64bit

12.80GB/s

Bandwidth

2.288GB/s

Render Config

2

SM Count

-

Compute Units

-

16

Shading Units

-

8

TMUs

2

4

ROPs

2

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

L1 Cache

-

32 KB

L2 Cache

-

Theoretical Performance

1.836 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

286.0 MPixel/s

3.672 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

286.0 MTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

29.38 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

-

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

G86

GPU Name

VSA-101

G86-300-A2

GPU Variant

Daytona (355-0025-221)

Tesla

Architecture

Voodoo Scalable

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

80 nm

Process Size

180 nm

0.21 billion

Transistors

0.014 billion

127 mm²

Die Size

112 mm²

Board Design

30W

TDP

15W

200 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

1x DVI 1x VGA 1x S-Video

Outputs

1x DVI 1x VGA

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

11.1 (10_0)

DirectX

6.0

3.3

OpenGL

1.1

OpenCL

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

1.1

CUDA

-

4.0

Shader Model

-

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