NVIDIA GeForce GTX 670 vs NVIDIA GeForce 8500 GT

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 670

NVIDIA GeForce 8500 GT

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 670 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 670 's Advantages

Released 5 years and 1 months late

Boost Clock980MHz

More VRAM (2GB vs 256GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (192.3GB/s vs 12.80GB/s)

1328 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce 8500 GT 's Advantages

Lower TDP (30W vs 170W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 670 +8982%

2.634 TFLOPS

GeForce 8500 GT

0.029 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 670

VS

GeForce 8500 GT

Graphics Card

May 2012

Release Date

Apr 2007

GeForce 600

Generation

GeForce 8

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 1.0 x16

Clock Speeds

915 MHz

Base Clock

-

980 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1502 MHz

Memory Clock

400 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

256MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

192.3GB/s

Bandwidth

12.80GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

2

1344

Shading Units

16

112

TMUs

8

32

ROPs

4

-

16 KB (per SMX)

L1 Cache

-

512 KB

L2 Cache

32 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

27.44 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

1.836 GPixel/s

109.8 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

3.672 GTexel/s

-

2.634 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

29.38 GFLOPS

109.8 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

170W

TDP

30W

450 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

2x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 1x DisplayPort 1.2

Outputs

1x DVI 1x VGA 1x S-Video

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

GK104

GPU Name

G86

GK104-325-A2

GPU Variant

G86-300-A2

Kepler

Architecture

Tesla

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

80 nm

3.54 billion

Transistors

0.21 billion

294 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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