Cayman and GeForce 8500 GT - video card comparison

Cayman

GeForce 8500 GT

Architecture

TeraScale 3 (2010−2013)

Tesla (2006−2010)

GPU code name

Cayman

G86

Market segment

Desktop

Desktop

Release date

-

April 2007

Interface

-

PCIe 1.0 x16

Supplementary power connectors

-

None

SLI options

-

+

Core clock speed

-

459 MHz

Floating-point performance

-

29.376 gflops

Manufacturing process technology

40 nm

80 nm

Number of transistors

2,640 million

210 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

1536

16

Power consumption (TDP)

-

30 Watt

Texture fill rate

-

3.6 billion/sec

Memory type

-

GDDR3

Maximum RAM amount

-

256 MB

Memory bus width

-

128 Bit

Memory clock speed

-

800 MHz

Memory bandwidth

-

12.8 GB/s

Standard memory config per GPU

-

256 MB

Display Connectors

-

1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video

DirectX

11.2 (11_0)

11.1 (10_0)

CUDA

-

1.1

OpenCL

1.2

1.1

OpenGL

4.4

2.1

Shader Model

5.0

4.0

Vulkan

N/A

N/A