NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce 8500 GT

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB

NVIDIA GeForce 8500 GT

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB 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 RTX 3050 8 GB 's Advantages

Released 14 years and 9 months late

Boost Clock1777MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 256GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.0GB/s vs 12.80GB/s)

2544 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce 8500 GT 's Advantages

Lower TDP (30W vs 130W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB +31272%

9.098 TFLOPS

GeForce 8500 GT

0.029 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB

VS

GeForce 8500 GT

Graphics Card

Jan 2022

Release Date

Apr 2007

GeForce 30

Generation

GeForce 8

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 1.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1552 MHz

Base Clock

-

1777 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

400 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

256MB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR3

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

224.0GB/s

Bandwidth

12.80GB/s

Render Config

-

20

SM Count

2

2560

Shading Units

16

80

TMUs

8

32

ROPs

4

80

Tensor Cores

-

20

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

-

2 MB

L2 Cache

32 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

56.86 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

1.836 GPixel/s

142.2 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

3.672 GTexel/s

9.098 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

9.098 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

29.38 GFLOPS

142.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

130W

TDP

30W

300 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x DVI 1x VGA 1x S-Video

1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

GA106

GPU Name

G86

GA106-150-KA-A1

GPU Variant

G86-300-A2

Ampere

Architecture

Tesla

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

8 nm

Process Size

80 nm

12 billion

Transistors

0.21 billion

276 mm²

Die Size

127 mm²

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

11.1 (10_0)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3

3.0

OpenCL

1.1

1.3

Vulkan

N/A

8.6

CUDA

1.1

6.6

Shader Model

4.0

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