NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 OEM vs NVIDIA GeForce 8500 GT

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 OEM NVIDIA GeForce 8500 GT

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

Released 14 years and 9 months late

Boost Clock1755MHz

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

2288 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce 8500 GT 's Advantages

Lower TDP (30W vs 130W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3050 OEM +27786%

8.087 TFLOPS

GeForce 8500 GT

0.029 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3050 OEM

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

1515 MHz

Base Clock

-

1755 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

18

SM Count

2

-

Compute Units

-

2304

Shading Units

16

72

TMUs

8

32

ROPs

4

72

Tensor Cores

-

18

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

-

2 MB

L2 Cache

32 KB

Theoretical Performance

56.16 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

1.836 GPixel/s

126.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

3.672 GTexel/s

8.087 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

8.087 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

29.38 GFLOPS

126.4 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

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

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 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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