NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 vs NVIDIA GeForce 8500 GT

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 NVIDIA GeForce 8500 GT

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 5070 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 5070 's Advantages

Released 17 years and 9 months late

Boost Clock2520MHz

Larger VRAM bandwidth (120.0GB/s vs 12.80GB/s)

6384 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce 8500 GT 's Advantages

Lower TDP (30W vs 220W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 5070 +111141%

32.26 TFLOPS

GeForce 8500 GT

0.029 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 5070

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GeForce 8500 GT

Graphics Card

Jan 2025

Release Date

Apr 2007

GeForce 50

Generation

GeForce 8

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 5.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 1.0 x16

Clock Speeds

2235 MHz

Base Clock

-

2520 MHz

Boost Clock

-

2500 MHz

Memory Clock

400 MHz

Memory

12GB

Memory Size

256MB

GDDR7

Memory Type

GDDR3

192bit

Memory Bus

128bit

120.0GB/s

Bandwidth

12.80GB/s

Render Config

50

SM Count

2

-

Compute Units

-

6400

Shading Units

16

200

TMUs

8

64

ROPs

4

200

Tensor Cores

-

50

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

-

40 MB

L2 Cache

32 KB

Theoretical Performance

161.3 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

1.836 GPixel/s

504.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

3.672 GTexel/s

32.26 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

32.26 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

29.38 GFLOPS

504.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

GB205

GPU Name

G86

GB205

GPU Variant

G86-300-A2

Blackwell 2.0

Architecture

Tesla

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

0 nm

Process Size

80 nm

Unknown

Transistors

0.21 billion

Unknown

Die Size

127 mm²

Board Design

220W

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 16-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

9.1

CUDA

1.1

6.7

Shader Model

4.0

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