GeForce 8500 GT and GT218 - video card comparison

GeForce 8500 GT

GT218

Architecture

Tesla (2006−2010)

Tesla 2.0 (2007−2013)

GPU code name

G86

GT218

Market segment

Desktop

Desktop

Release date

April 2007

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Interface

PCIe 1.0 x16

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Supplementary power connectors

None

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SLI options

+

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Core clock speed

459 MHz

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Floating-point performance

29.376 gflops

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Manufacturing process technology

80 nm

40 nm

Number of transistors

210 million

260 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

16

16

Power consumption (TDP)

30 Watt

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Texture fill rate

3.6 billion/sec

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Memory type

GDDR3

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Maximum RAM amount

256 MB

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Memory bus width

128 Bit

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Memory clock speed

800 MHz

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Memory bandwidth

12.8 GB/s

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Standard memory config per GPU

256 MB

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Display Connectors

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

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DirectX

11.1 (10_0)

11.1 (10_1)

CUDA

1.1

1.2

OpenCL

1.1

1.1

OpenGL

2.1

3.3

Shader Model

4.0

4.1

Vulkan

N/A

N/A

PureVideo HD

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VP4