GeForce 8500 GT and GeForce GT 120 OEM - video card comparison
GeForce 8500 GT
GeForce GT 120 OEM
Architecture
Tesla (2006−2010)
Tesla (2006−2010)
GPU code name
G86
G96C
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
April 2007
March 2009
Interface
PCIe 1.0 x16
PCIe 2.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
None
None
SLI options
+
-
Core clock speed
459 MHz
738 MHz
Floating-point performance
29.376 gflops
117.5 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
80 nm
55 nm
Number of transistors
210 million
314 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
16
32
Power consumption (TDP)
30 Watt
50 Watt
Texture fill rate
3.6 billion/sec
11.81
Memory type
GDDR3
DDR2
Maximum RAM amount
256 MB
512 MB
Memory bus width
128 Bit
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
800 MHz
1008 MHz
Memory bandwidth
12.8 GB/s
16.13 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)
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