GeForce 8500 GT and GeForce GTS 450 OEM - video card comparison
GeForce 8500 GT
GeForce GTS 450 OEM
Architecture
Tesla (2006−2010)
Fermi (2010−2014)
GPU code name
G86
GF106
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
April 2007
October 2010
Interface
PCIe 1.0 x16
PCIe 2.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
None
1x 6-pin
SLI options
+
-
Core clock speed
459 MHz
790 MHz
Floating-point performance
29.376 gflops
455.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
80 nm
40 nm
Number of transistors
210 million
1,170 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
16
144
Power consumption (TDP)
30 Watt
106 Watt
Texture fill rate
3.6 billion/sec
18.96
Memory type
GDDR3
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
256 MB
1536 MB
Memory bus width
128 Bit
192 Bit
Memory clock speed
800 MHz
4000 MHz
Memory bandwidth
12.8 GB/s
96 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
2.1
OpenCL
1.1
1.1
OpenGL
2.1
4.6
Shader Model
4.0
5.1
Vulkan
N/A
N/A