GeForce 8500 GT and GeForce FX 5500 PCI - video card comparison
GeForce 8500 GT
GeForce FX 5500 PCI
Architecture
Tesla (2006−2010)
Rankine (2003−2005)
GPU code name
G86
NV34 B1
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
April 2007
March 2004
Interface
PCIe 1.0 x16
PCI
Supplementary power connectors
None
None
SLI options
+
-
Core clock speed
459 MHz
270 MHz
Floating-point performance
29.376 gflops
-
Manufacturing process technology
80 nm
150 nm
Number of transistors
210 million
45 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
16
-
Power consumption (TDP)
30 Watt
-
Texture fill rate
3.6 billion/sec
1.080
Memory type
GDDR3
DDR
Maximum RAM amount
256 MB
256 MB
Memory bus width
128 Bit
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
800 MHz
400 MHz
Memory bandwidth
12.8 GB/s
6.4 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)
9.0a
CUDA
1.1
-
OpenCL
1.1
N/A
OpenGL
2.1
1.5 (2.1)
Shader Model
4.0
-
Vulkan
N/A
N/A