NVIDIA GeForce GT 1030 GK107 vs NVIDIA GeForce 8500 GT

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NVIDIA GeForce GT 1030 GK107

NVIDIA GeForce 8500 GT

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce GT 1030 GK107 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 GK107 's Advantages

Released 11 years and 5 months late

More VRAM (2GB vs 256GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (80.00GB/s vs 12.80GB/s)

368 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce 8500 GT 's Advantages

Lower TDP (30W vs 65W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GT 1030 GK107 +2700%

0.812 TFLOPS

GeForce 8500 GT

0.029 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 1030 GK107

VS

GeForce 8500 GT

Graphics Card

Sep 2018

Release Date

Apr 2007

GeForce 10

Generation

GeForce 8

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 1.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

1250 MHz

Memory Clock

400 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

256MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

80.00GB/s

Bandwidth

12.80GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

2

384

Shading Units

16

32

TMUs

8

16

ROPs

4

-

16 KB (per SMX)

L1 Cache

-

256 KB

L2 Cache

32 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

8.464 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

1.836 GPixel/s

33.86 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

3.672 GTexel/s

-

812.5 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

29.38 GFLOPS

33.86 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

65W

TDP

30W

250 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

2x DVI 1x mini-HDMI 1.4a

Outputs

1x DVI 1x VGA 1x S-Video

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

GK107

GPU Name

G86

-

GPU Variant

G86-300-A2

Kepler

Architecture

Tesla

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

80 nm

1.27 billion

Transistors

0.21 billion

118 mm²

Die Size

127 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_0)

DirectX

11.1 (10_0)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3

3.0

OpenCL

1.1

Vulkan

N/A

3.0

CUDA

1.1

5.1

Shader Model

4.0

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