
GeForce 8500 GT and GMA 3100 - video card comparison
GeForce 8500 GT
GMA 3100
Architecture
Tesla (2006−2010)
Generation 4.0 (2006−2007)
GPU code name
G86
Bearlake
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
April 2007
May 2007
Interface
PCIe 1.0 x16
PCIe 1.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
None
-
SLI options
+
-
Core clock speed
459 MHz
400 MHz
Floating-point performance
29.376 gflops
-
Manufacturing process technology
80 nm
90 nm
Number of transistors
210 million
-
Pipelines / CUDA cores
16
-
Power consumption (TDP)
30 Watt
13 Watt
Texture fill rate
3.6 billion/sec
1.600
Memory type
GDDR3
System Shared
Maximum RAM amount
256 MB
System Shared
Memory bus width
128 Bit
System Shared
Memory clock speed
800 MHz
System Shared
Memory bandwidth
12.8 GB/s
-
Standard memory config per GPU
256 MB
-
Display Connectors
1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
No outputs
DirectX
11.1 (10_0)
9.0c
CUDA
1.1
-
OpenCL
1.1
N/A
OpenGL
2.1
2.0
Shader Model
4.0
3.0
Vulkan
N/A
N/A