NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 vs NVIDIA GeForce 8500 GT
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 16GB VRAM GeForce RTX 4080 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 4080 's Advantages
Released 15 years and 5 months late
Boost Clock2505MHz
More VRAM (16GB vs 256GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (716.8GB/s vs 12.80GB/s)
9712 additional rendering cores
NVIDIA GeForce 8500 GT 's Advantages
Lower TDP (30W vs 320W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce RTX 4080
+167968%
48.74 TFLOPS
GeForce 8500 GT
0.029 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Sep 2022
Release Date
Apr 2007
GeForce 40
Generation
GeForce 8
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 4.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 1.0 x16
Clock Speeds
2205 MHz
Base Clock
-
2505 MHz
Boost Clock
-
1400 MHz
Memory Clock
400 MHz
Memory
16GB
Memory Size
256MB
GDDR6X
Memory Type
GDDR3
256bit
Memory Bus
128bit
716.8GB/s
Bandwidth
12.80GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
76
SM Count
2
9728
Shading Units
16
304
TMUs
8
112
ROPs
4
304
Tensor Cores
-
76
RT Cores
-
128 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
-
64 MB
L2 Cache
32 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
280.6 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
1.836 GPixel/s
761.5 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
3.672 GTexel/s
48.74 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
-
48.74 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
29.38 GFLOPS
761.5 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
-
Board Design
320W
TDP
30W
700 W
Suggested PSU
200 W
1x HDMI 2.1
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
Outputs
1x DVI
1x VGA
1x S-Video
1x 16-pin
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
AD103
GPU Name
G86
AD103-300-A1
GPU Variant
G86-300-A2
Ada Lovelace
Architecture
Tesla
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
5 nm
Process Size
80 nm
45.9 billion
Transistors
0.21 billion
379 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
8.9
CUDA
1.1
6.7
Shader Model
4.0
