GeForce 8500 GT and GeForce GT 730 OEM - video card comparison
GeForce 8500 GT
GeForce GT 730 OEM
Architecture
Tesla (2006−2010)
Kepler (2012−2018)
GPU code name
G86
GK107
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
April 2007
April 2015
Interface
PCIe 1.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
None
1x 6-pin
SLI options
+
-
Core clock speed
459 MHz
902 MHz
Floating-point performance
29.376 gflops
762.6 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
80 nm
28 nm
Number of transistors
210 million
1,270 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
16
384
Power consumption (TDP)
30 Watt
64 Watt
Texture fill rate
3.6 billion/sec
28.86
Memory type
GDDR3
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
256 MB
1 GB
Memory bus width
128 Bit
64 Bit
Memory clock speed
800 MHz
5012 MHz
Memory bandwidth
12.8 GB/s
40.1 GB/s
Standard memory config per GPU
256 MB
-
Display Connectors
1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
2x DVI, 1x mini-HDMI
HDMI
-
+
DirectX
11.1 (10_0)
12 (11_0)
CUDA
1.1
3.0
OpenCL
1.1
1.2
OpenGL
2.1
4.6
Shader Model
4.0
5.1
Vulkan
N/A
1.1.126