NVIDIA GeForce GT 1030 DDR4 vs NVIDIA GeForce 8500 GT
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce GT 1030 DDR4 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 GT 1030 DDR4 's Advantages
Released 10 years and 11 months late
Boost Clock1379MHz
More VRAM (2GB vs 256GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (16.80GB/s vs 12.80GB/s)
368 additional rendering cores
Lower TDP (20W vs 30W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GT 1030 DDR4
+3551%
1.059 TFLOPS
GeForce 8500 GT
0.029 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Mar 2018
Release Date
Apr 2007
GeForce 10
Generation
GeForce 8
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x4
Bus Interface
PCIe 1.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1152 MHz
Base Clock
-
1379 MHz
Boost Clock
-
1050 MHz
Memory Clock
400 MHz
Memory
2GB
Memory Size
256MB
DDR4
Memory Type
GDDR3
64bit
Memory Bus
128bit
16.80GB/s
Bandwidth
12.80GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
3
SM Count
2
384
Shading Units
16
24
TMUs
8
16
ROPs
4
-
-
-
-
-
-
48 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
-
512 KB
L2 Cache
32 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
22.06 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
1.836 GPixel/s
33.10 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
3.672 GTexel/s
16.55 GFLOPS
FP16 (half)
-
1059 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
29.38 GFLOPS
33.10 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
-
Board Design
20W
TDP
30W
200 W
Suggested PSU
200 W
1x DVI
1x HDMI 2.0
Outputs
1x DVI
1x VGA
1x S-Video
None
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
GP108
GPU Name
G86
GP108-310-A1
GPU Variant
G86-300-A2
Pascal
Architecture
Tesla
Samsung
Foundry
TSMC
14 nm
Process Size
80 nm
1.8 billion
Transistors
0.21 billion
74 mm²
Die Size
127 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (12_1)
DirectX
11.1 (10_0)
4.6
OpenGL
3.3
3.0
OpenCL
1.1
1.3
Vulkan
N/A
6.1
CUDA
1.1
6.4
Shader Model
4.0
