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
GeForce 8500 GT
NVIDIA GeForce 8500 GT: GPU Specs & Benchmarks