NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GTS 320 vs NVIDIA GeForce 8500 GT

VS

NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GTS 320

NVIDIA GeForce 8500 GT

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 320MB VRAM GeForce 8800 GTS 320 and 256MB VRAM GeForce 8500 GT to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GTS 320 's Advantages

More VRAM (320GB vs 256GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (63.36GB/s vs 12.80GB/s)

80 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce 8500 GT 's Advantages

Lower TDP (30W vs 143W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce 8800 GTS 320 +686%

0.228 TFLOPS

GeForce 8500 GT

0.029 TFLOPS

GeForce 8800 GTS 320

VS

GeForce 8500 GT

Graphics Card

Feb 2007

Release Date

Apr 2007

GeForce 8

Generation

GeForce 8

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 1.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 1.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

792 MHz

Memory Clock

400 MHz

Memory

320MB

Memory Size

256MB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR3

320bit

Memory Bus

128bit

63.36GB/s

Bandwidth

12.80GB/s

Render Config

-

12

SM Count

2

96

Shading Units

16

24

TMUs

8

20

ROPs

4

-

80 KB

L2 Cache

32 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

10.26 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

1.836 GPixel/s

24.62 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

3.672 GTexel/s

-

228.1 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

29.38 GFLOPS

-

Board Design

143W

TDP

30W

300 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

2x DVI 1x S-Video

Outputs

1x DVI 1x VGA 1x S-Video

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

G80

GPU Name

G86

G80-100-K0-A2

GPU Variant

G86-300-A2

Tesla

Architecture

Tesla

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

90 nm

Process Size

80 nm

0.681 billion

Transistors

0.21 billion

484 mm²

Die Size

127 mm²

Graphics Features

11.1 (10_0)

DirectX

11.1 (10_0)

3.3

OpenGL

3.3

1.1 (1.0)

OpenCL

1.1

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

1.0

CUDA

1.1

4.0

Shader Model

4.0

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