GeForce 8500 GT and FirePro V3800 - video card comparison
GeForce 8500 GT
FirePro V3800
Architecture
Tesla (2006−2010)
TeraScale 2 (2009−2015)
GPU code name
G86
Redwood
Market segment
Desktop
Workstation
Release date
April 2007
April 2010
Interface
PCIe 1.0 x16
PCIe 2.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
None
None
SLI options
+
-
Core clock speed
459 MHz
650 MHz
Floating-point performance
29.376 gflops
520.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
80 nm
40 nm
Number of transistors
210 million
627 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
16
400
Power consumption (TDP)
30 Watt
43 Watt
Texture fill rate
3.6 billion/sec
13.00
Memory type
GDDR3
DDR3
Maximum RAM amount
256 MB
512 MB
Memory bus width
128 Bit
64 Bit
Memory clock speed
800 MHz
1800 MHz
Memory bandwidth
12.8 GB/s
14.4 GB/s
Standard memory config per GPU
256 MB
-
Display Connectors
1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
1x DVI, 1x DisplayPort
DirectX
11.1 (10_0)
11.2 (11_0)
CUDA
1.1
-
OpenCL
1.1
1.2
OpenGL
2.1
4.4
Shader Model
4.0
5.0
Vulkan
N/A
N/A