NVIDIA RTX A400 vs NVIDIA GeForce 8500 GT
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM RTX A400 and 256MB VRAM GeForce 8500 GT to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
NVIDIA RTX A400 's Advantages
Released 17 years late
Boost Clock1762MHz
More VRAM (4GB vs 256GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (96.00GB/s vs 12.80GB/s)
752 additional rendering cores
NVIDIA GeForce 8500 GT 's Advantages
Lower TDP (30W vs 50W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
RTX A400
+9231%
2.706 TFLOPS
GeForce 8500 GT
0.029 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Apr 2024
Release Date
Apr 2007
Quadro Ampere(Ax000)
Generation
GeForce 8
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 4.0 x8
Bus Interface
PCIe 1.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1417 MHz
Base Clock
-
1762 MHz
Boost Clock
-
1500 MHz
Memory Clock
400 MHz
Memory
4GB
Memory Size
256MB
GDDR6
Memory Type
GDDR3
64bit
Memory Bus
128bit
96.00GB/s
Bandwidth
12.80GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
6
SM Count
2
768
Shading Units
16
24
TMUs
8
16
ROPs
4
24
Tensor Cores
-
6
RT Cores
-
128 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
-
2 MB
L2 Cache
32 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
28.19 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
1.836 GPixel/s
42.29 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
3.672 GTexel/s
2.706 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
-
2.706 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
29.38 GFLOPS
42.29 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
-
Board Design
50W
TDP
30W
250 W
Suggested PSU
200 W
4x mini-DisplayPort 1.4a
Outputs
1x DVI
1x VGA
1x S-Video
None
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
GA107
GPU Name
G86
-
GPU Variant
G86-300-A2
Ampere
Architecture
Tesla
Samsung
Foundry
TSMC
8 nm
Process Size
80 nm
8.7 billion
Transistors
0.21 billion
200 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
6.8
Shader Model
4.0
