GeForce 8500 GT and GeForce 7300 LE - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score GeForce 8500 GT vs GeForce 7300 LE
GeForce 8500 GT
140
GeForce 7300 LE
82
GeForce 8500 GT
GeForce 7300 LE
Architecture
Tesla (2006−2010)
Curie (2003−2013)
GPU code name
G86
G72
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
April 2007
March 2006
Interface
PCIe 1.0 x16
PCIe 1.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
None
None
SLI options
+
-
Core clock speed
459 MHz
450 MHz
Floating-point performance
29.376 gflops
-
Manufacturing process technology
80 nm
90 nm
Number of transistors
210 million
112 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
16
-
Power consumption (TDP)
30 Watt
-
Texture fill rate
3.6 billion/sec
1.800
Memory type
GDDR3
DDR2
Maximum RAM amount
256 MB
128 MB
Memory bus width
128 Bit
64 Bit
Memory clock speed
800 MHz
648 MHz
Memory bandwidth
12.8 GB/s
5.184 GB/s
Standard memory config per GPU
256 MB
-
Display Connectors
1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
1x DVI, 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