GeForce 8500 GT and GeForce 7100 GS - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score GeForce 8500 GT vs GeForce 7100 GS
GeForce 8500 GT
140
GeForce 7100 GS
53
GeForce 8500 GT
GeForce 7100 GS
Architecture
Tesla (2006−2010)
Curie (2003−2013)
GPU code name
G86
NV44 B2
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
April 2007
August 2006
Interface
PCIe 1.0 x16
PCIe 1.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
None
None
SLI options
+
-
Core clock speed
459 MHz
350 MHz
Floating-point performance
29.376 gflops
-
Manufacturing process technology
80 nm
110 nm
Number of transistors
210 million
75 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
16
-
Power consumption (TDP)
30 Watt
-
Texture fill rate
3.6 billion/sec
1.400
Memory type
GDDR3
DDR2
Maximum RAM amount
256 MB
128 MB
Memory bus width
128 Bit
64 Bit
Memory clock speed
800 MHz
532 MHz
Memory bandwidth
12.8 GB/s
4.256 GB/s
Standard memory config per GPU
256 MB
-
Display Connectors
1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
DirectX
11.1 (10_0)
9.0c (9_3)
CUDA
1.1
-
OpenCL
1.1
N/A
OpenGL
2.1
2.1
Shader Model
4.0
3.0
Vulkan
N/A
N/A