GeForce 8500 GT and GeForce 210 OEM - video card comparison
GeForce 8500 GT
GeForce 210 OEM
Architecture
Tesla (2006−2010)
Tesla 2.0 (2007−2013)
GPU code name
G86
GT216
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
April 2007
September 2009
Interface
PCIe 1.0 x16
PCIe 2.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
None
None
SLI options
+
-
Core clock speed
459 MHz
475 MHz
Floating-point performance
29.376 gflops
35.2 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
80 nm
40 nm
Number of transistors
210 million
486 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
16
16
Power consumption (TDP)
30 Watt
31 Watt
Texture fill rate
3.6 billion/sec
3.800
Memory type
GDDR3
DDR2
Maximum RAM amount
256 MB
1 GB
Memory bus width
128 Bit
64 Bit
Memory clock speed
800 MHz
800 MHz
Memory bandwidth
12.8 GB/s
6.4 GB/s
Standard memory config per GPU
256 MB
-
Display Connectors
1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
1x DVI, 1x DisplayPort, 1x VGA
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