NVIDIA NVS 310 vs NVIDIA GeForce 8500 GT

VS

NVIDIA NVS 310

NVIDIA GeForce 8500 GT

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM NVS 310 and 256MB VRAM GeForce 8500 GT to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA NVS 310 's Advantages

Released 5 years and 2 months late

More VRAM (512GB vs 256GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (14.00GB/s vs 12.80GB/s)

32 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (20W vs 30W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

NVS 310 +244%

0.1 TFLOPS

GeForce 8500 GT

0.029 TFLOPS

NVS 310

VS

GeForce 8500 GT

Graphics Card

Jun 2012

Release Date

Apr 2007

NVS

Generation

GeForce 8

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 1.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

875 MHz

Memory Clock

400 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

256MB

DDR3

Memory Type

GDDR3

64bit

Memory Bus

128bit

14.00GB/s

Bandwidth

12.80GB/s

Render Config

-

1

SM Count

2

48

Shading Units

16

8

TMUs

8

4

ROPs

4

-

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

-

128 KB

L2 Cache

32 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

1.046 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

1.836 GPixel/s

4.184 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

3.672 GTexel/s

-

100.4 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

29.38 GFLOPS

8.368 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

20W

TDP

30W

200 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

2x DisplayPort

Outputs

1x DVI 1x VGA 1x S-Video

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

GF119

GPU Name

G86

GF119-825-A1

GPU Variant

G86-300-A2

Fermi 2.0

Architecture

Tesla

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

80 nm

0.292 billion

Transistors

0.21 billion

79 mm²

Die Size

127 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_0)

DirectX

11.1 (10_0)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3

1.1

OpenCL

1.1

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

2.1

CUDA

1.1

5.1

Shader Model

4.0

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