GeForce 8500 GT and GeForce 8800 GT Mac Edition - video card comparison
GeForce 8500 GT
GeForce 8800 GT Mac Edition
Architecture
Tesla (2006−2010)
Tesla (2006−2010)
GPU code name
G86
G92
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
April 2007
February 2008
Interface
PCIe 1.0 x16
PCIe 2.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
None
1x 6-pin
SLI options
+
-
Core clock speed
459 MHz
600 MHz
Floating-point performance
29.376 gflops
336.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
80 nm
65 nm
Number of transistors
210 million
754 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
16
112
Power consumption (TDP)
30 Watt
125 Watt
Texture fill rate
3.6 billion/sec
33.60
Memory type
GDDR3
GDDR3
Maximum RAM amount
256 MB
512 MB
Memory bus width
128 Bit
256 Bit
Memory clock speed
800 MHz
1800 MHz
Memory bandwidth
12.8 GB/s
57.6 GB/s
Standard memory config per GPU
256 MB
-
Display Connectors
1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
2x DVI
DirectX
11.1 (10_0)
11.1 (10_0)
CUDA
1.1
1.1
OpenCL
1.1
1.1
OpenGL
2.1
3.3
Shader Model
4.0
4.0
Vulkan
N/A
N/A