NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 OEM vs NVIDIA GeForce 8500 GT

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 OEM

NVIDIA GeForce 8500 GT

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 960 OEM 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 960 OEM 's Advantages

Released 8 years and 7 months late

Boost Clock1201MHz

More VRAM (4GB vs 256GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (112.2GB/s vs 12.80GB/s)

1008 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 960 OEM +8382%

2.46 TFLOPS

GeForce 8500 GT

0.029 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 960 OEM

VS

GeForce 8500 GT

Graphics Card

Nov 2015

Release Date

Apr 2007

GeForce 900

Generation

GeForce 8

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 1.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1176 MHz

Base Clock

-

1201 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1753 MHz

Memory Clock

400 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

256MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

112.2GB/s

Bandwidth

12.80GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

2

1024

Shading Units

16

64

TMUs

8

32

ROPs

4

-

48 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

-

1024 KB

L2 Cache

32 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

38.43 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

1.836 GPixel/s

76.86 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

3.672 GTexel/s

-

2.460 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

29.38 GFLOPS

76.86 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

Unknown

TDP

30W

200 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

No outputs

Outputs

1x DVI 1x VGA 1x S-Video

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

GM206

GPU Name

G86

GTX 960 OEM

GPU Variant

G86-300-A2

Maxwell 2.0

Architecture

Tesla

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

80 nm

2.94 billion

Transistors

0.21 billion

228 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

5.2

CUDA

1.1

6.7

Shader Model

4.0

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