GeForce 8500 GT and GeForce 7300 GT - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score GeForce 8500 GT vs GeForce 7300 GT
GeForce 8500 GT
140
GeForce 7300 GT
140
GeForce 8500 GT
GeForce 7300 GT
Architecture
Tesla (2006−2010)
Curie (2003−2013)
GPU code name
G86
G73
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
April 2007
May 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
90 nm
Number of transistors
210 million
177 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
16
-
Power consumption (TDP)
30 Watt
24 Watt
Texture fill rate
3.6 billion/sec
2.800
Memory type
GDDR3
DDR2
Maximum RAM amount
256 MB
128 MB
Memory bus width
128 Bit
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
800 MHz
650 MBps
Memory bandwidth
12.8 GB/s
10.4 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