NVIDIA GeForce 8500 GT: GPU Specs & Benchmarks

The GeForce 8500 GT is a graphics card by NVIDIA, built on the 80 nm process and based on the G86 graphics processor (GPU). The video card specifications and performance tests (benchmarks) are listed below.

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Benchmarks

3DMark Fire Strike

723

Graphics Processor (GPU)

GPU Name

G86

Model number

G86-300-A2

Architecture

Tesla

Foundry

TSMC

Process Size

80 nm

Transistors

210 million

Die Size

127 mm²

Graphics Card

Release Date

Apr 17th, 2007

Family

GeForce 8
(8500)

Production

End-of-life

Launch Price

129 USD

Predecessor

GeForce 7 PCIe

Bus Interface

PCIe 1.0 x16

Memory

Memory Size

256 MB

Memory Type

GDDR3

Memory Bus

128 bit

Bandwidth

12.80 GB/s

Performance

Pixel fillrate

1.836 GPixel/s

Texture fillrate

3.672 GTexel/s

FP32 (float) performance

29.38 GFLOPS

Clock Speeds

Memory Clock

400 MHz
800 Mbps effective

GPU Clock

459 MHz

Render Config

Shading Units

16

TMUs

8

ROPs

4

L2 Cache

32 KB

SM Count

2

Board Design

Slot Width

Single-slot

Length

229 mm
9 inches

Thermal design power (TDP)

30 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

Display Connectors

1x DVI
1x VGA
1x S-Video

Power Connectors

None

Board Number

P403

API support

DirectX

11.1 (10_0)

OpenGL

3.3

OpenCL

1.1

Vulkan

N/A

Shader Model

4.0

CUDA

1.1