GeForce 8500 GT and GeForce FX 5900 Ultra - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score GeForce 8500 GT vs GeForce FX 5900 Ultra
GeForce 8500 GT
140
GeForce FX 5900 Ultra
42
GeForce 8500 GT
GeForce FX 5900 Ultra
Architecture
Tesla (2006−2010)
Rankine (2003−2005)
GPU code name
G86
NV35
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
April 2007
October 2003
Interface
PCIe 1.0 x16
AGP 8x
Supplementary power connectors
None
1x Molex
SLI options
+
-
Core clock speed
459 MHz
450 MHz
Floating-point performance
29.376 gflops
-
Manufacturing process technology
80 nm
130 nm
Number of transistors
210 million
135 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
16
-
Power consumption (TDP)
30 Watt
59 Watt
Texture fill rate
3.6 billion/sec
3.600
Memory type
GDDR3
DDR
Maximum RAM amount
256 MB
256 MB
Memory bus width
128 Bit
256 Bit
Memory clock speed
800 MHz
850 MHz
Memory bandwidth
12.8 GB/s
27.2 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