GeForce 8500 GT and GeForce 310 OEM - video card comparison
GeForce 8500 GT
GeForce 310 OEM
Architecture
Tesla (2006−2010)
Tesla 2.0 (2007−2013)
GPU code name
G86
GT218
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
April 2007
November 2009
Interface
PCIe 1.0 x16
PCIe 2.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
None
None
SLI options
+
-
Core clock speed
459 MHz
589 MHz
Floating-point performance
29.376 gflops
44.86 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
80 nm
40 nm
Number of transistors
210 million
260 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
16
16
Power consumption (TDP)
30 Watt
31 Watt
Texture fill rate
3.6 billion/sec
4.712
Memory type
GDDR3
DDR2
Maximum RAM amount
256 MB
512 MB
Memory bus width
128 Bit
64 Bit
Memory clock speed
800 MHz
666 MHz
Memory bandwidth
12.8 GB/s
5.328 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