NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 vs NVIDIA GeForce 8500 GT

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460

NVIDIA GeForce 8500 GT

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 768MB VRAM GeForce GTX 460 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 460 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 3 months late

More VRAM (768GB vs 256GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (86.40GB/s vs 12.80GB/s)

320 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce 8500 GT 's Advantages

Lower TDP (30W vs 160W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 460 +3027%

0.907 TFLOPS

GeForce 8500 GT

0.029 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 460

VS

GeForce 8500 GT

Graphics Card

Jul 2010

Release Date

Apr 2007

GeForce 400

Generation

GeForce 8

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 1.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

900 MHz

Memory Clock

400 MHz

Memory

768MB

Memory Size

256MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

192bit

Memory Bus

128bit

86.40GB/s

Bandwidth

12.80GB/s

Render Config

-

7

SM Count

2

336

Shading Units

16

56

TMUs

8

24

ROPs

4

-

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

-

384 KB

L2 Cache

32 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

9.450 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

1.836 GPixel/s

37.80 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

3.672 GTexel/s

-

907.2 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

29.38 GFLOPS

75.60 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

160W

TDP

30W

450 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

2x DVI 1x mini-HDMI 1.3a

Outputs

1x DVI 1x VGA 1x S-Video

-

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

GF104

GPU Name

G86

GF104-300-KB-A1

GPU Variant

G86-300-A2

Fermi

Architecture

Tesla

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

80 nm

1.95 billion

Transistors

0.21 billion

332 mm²

Die Size

127 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_0)

DirectX

11.1 (10_0)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3

1.1

OpenCL

1.1

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

2.1

CUDA

1.1

5.1

Shader Model

4.0

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