NVIDIA GeForce GTX 470 X2 vs NVIDIA GeForce 8500 GT

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 470 X2

NVIDIA GeForce 8500 GT

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce GTX 470 X2 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 470 X2 's Advantages

More VRAM (1024GB vs 256GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (107.1GB/s vs 12.80GB/s)

336 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce 8500 GT 's Advantages

Lower TDP (30W vs 215W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 470 X2 +2848%

0.855 TFLOPS

GeForce 8500 GT

0.029 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 470 X2

VS

GeForce 8500 GT

Graphics Card

Unknown

Release Date

Apr 2007

GeForce 400

Generation

GeForce 8

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 1.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

837 MHz

Memory Clock

400 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

256MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

107.1GB/s

Bandwidth

12.80GB/s

Render Config

-

11

SM Count

2

352

Shading Units

16

44

TMUs

8

32

ROPs

4

-

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

-

512 KB

L2 Cache

32 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

13.38 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

1.836 GPixel/s

26.75 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

3.672 GTexel/s

-

855.4 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

29.38 GFLOPS

-

Board Design

215W

TDP

30W

550 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

3x DVI

Outputs

1x DVI 1x VGA 1x S-Video

2x 8-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

GF100

GPU Name

G86

GF100-030-A3

GPU Variant

G86-300-A2

Fermi

Architecture

Tesla

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

80 nm

3.1 billion

Transistors

0.21 billion

529 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

2.0

CUDA

1.1

5.1

Shader Model

4.0

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