NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 vs NVIDIA GeForce 8500 GT

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660

NVIDIA GeForce 8500 GT

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 6GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1660 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 GTX 1660 's Advantages

Released 11 years and 11 months late

Boost Clock1785MHz

More VRAM (6GB vs 256GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (192.1GB/s vs 12.80GB/s)

1392 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce 8500 GT 's Advantages

Lower TDP (30W vs 120W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 1660 +17234%

5.027 TFLOPS

GeForce 8500 GT

0.029 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1660

VS

GeForce 8500 GT

Graphics Card

Mar 2019

Release Date

Apr 2007

GeForce 16

Generation

GeForce 8

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 1.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1530 MHz

Base Clock

-

1785 MHz

Boost Clock

-

2001 MHz

Memory Clock

400 MHz

Memory

6GB

Memory Size

256MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

192bit

Memory Bus

128bit

192.1GB/s

Bandwidth

12.80GB/s

Render Config

-

22

SM Count

2

1408

Shading Units

16

88

TMUs

8

48

ROPs

4

-

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

-

1536 KB

L2 Cache

32 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

85.68 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

1.836 GPixel/s

157.1 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

3.672 GTexel/s

10.05 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

5.027 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

29.38 GFLOPS

157.1 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

120W

TDP

30W

300 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0 1x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x DVI 1x VGA 1x S-Video

1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

TU116

GPU Name

G86

TU116-300-A1

GPU Variant

G86-300-A2

Turing

Architecture

Tesla

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

12 nm

Process Size

80 nm

6.6 billion

Transistors

0.21 billion

284 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

7.5

CUDA

1.1

6.6

Shader Model

4.0

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