NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Ti vs NVIDIA GeForce 8500 GT

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Ti

NVIDIA GeForce 8500 GT

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 6GB VRAM GeForce GTX 980 Ti 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 980 Ti 's Advantages

Released 8 years and 2 months late

Boost Clock1076MHz

More VRAM (6GB vs 256GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (336.6GB/s vs 12.80GB/s)

2800 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce 8500 GT 's Advantages

Lower TDP (30W vs 250W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 980 Ti +20796%

6.06 TFLOPS

GeForce 8500 GT

0.029 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 980 Ti

VS

GeForce 8500 GT

Graphics Card

Jun 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

1000 MHz

Base Clock

-

1076 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1753 MHz

Memory Clock

400 MHz

Memory

6GB

Memory Size

256MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

384bit

Memory Bus

128bit

336.6GB/s

Bandwidth

12.80GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

2

2816

Shading Units

16

176

TMUs

8

96

ROPs

4

-

48 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

-

3 MB

L2 Cache

32 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

103.3 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

1.836 GPixel/s

189.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

3.672 GTexel/s

-

6.060 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

29.38 GFLOPS

189.4 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

250W

TDP

30W

600 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x DVI 1x VGA 1x S-Video

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

GM200

GPU Name

G86

GM200-310-A1

GPU Variant

G86-300-A2

Maxwell 2.0

Architecture

Tesla

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

80 nm

8 billion

Transistors

0.21 billion

601 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

6.4

Shader Model

4.0

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