NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X vs NVIDIA GeForce 8500 GT

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X

NVIDIA GeForce 8500 GT

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X 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 3060 Ti GDDR6X 's Advantages

Released 15 years and 6 months late

Boost Clock1665MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 256GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (608.3GB/s vs 12.80GB/s)

4848 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce 8500 GT 's Advantages

Lower TDP (30W vs 225W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X +55762%

16.2 TFLOPS

GeForce 8500 GT

0.029 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X

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GeForce 8500 GT

Graphics Card

Oct 2022

Release Date

Apr 2007

GeForce 30

Generation

GeForce 8

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 1.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1410 MHz

Base Clock

-

1665 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1188 MHz

Memory Clock

400 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

256MB

GDDR6X

Memory Type

GDDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

608.3GB/s

Bandwidth

12.80GB/s

Render Config

-

38

SM Count

2

4864

Shading Units

16

152

TMUs

8

80

ROPs

4

152

Tensor Cores

-

38

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

-

4 MB

L2 Cache

32 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

133.2 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

1.836 GPixel/s

253.1 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

3.672 GTexel/s

16.20 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

16.20 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

29.38 GFLOPS

253.1 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

225W

TDP

30W

550 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x DVI 1x VGA 1x S-Video

1x 12-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

GA104

GPU Name

G86

GA104-202-A1

GPU Variant

G86-300-A2

Ampere

Architecture

Tesla

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

8 nm

Process Size

80 nm

17.4 billion

Transistors

0.21 billion

392 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

6.7

Shader Model

4.0

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