NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GTX vs NVIDIA GeForce 8500 GT

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NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GTX

NVIDIA GeForce 8500 GT

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 9600 GTX 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 9600 GTX 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 1 months late

More VRAM (512GB vs 256GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (44.80GB/s vs 12.80GB/s)

80 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce 8500 GT 's Advantages

Lower TDP (30W vs 140W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce 9600 GTX +858%

0.278 TFLOPS

GeForce 8500 GT

0.029 TFLOPS

GeForce 9600 GTX

VS

GeForce 8500 GT

Graphics Card

May 2009

Release Date

Apr 2007

GeForce 9

Generation

GeForce 8

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 1.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

700 MHz

Memory Clock

400 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

256MB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

44.80GB/s

Bandwidth

12.80GB/s

Render Config

-

12

SM Count

2

96

Shading Units

16

48

TMUs

8

16

ROPs

4

-

64 KB

L2 Cache

32 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

9.280 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

1.836 GPixel/s

27.84 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

3.672 GTexel/s

-

278.4 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

29.38 GFLOPS

-

Board Design

140W

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

G92

GPU Name

G86

-

GPU Variant

G86-300-A2

Tesla

Architecture

Tesla

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

65 nm

Process Size

80 nm

0.754 billion

Transistors

0.21 billion

324 mm²

Die Size

127 mm²

Graphics Features

11.1 (10_0)

DirectX

11.1 (10_0)

3.3

OpenGL

3.3

1.1

OpenCL

1.1

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

1.1

CUDA

1.1

4.0

Shader Model

4.0

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