GeForce 8500 GT and GeForce RTX 3050 6 GB - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score GeForce 8500 GT vs GeForce RTX 3050 6 GB
GeForce 8500 GT
140
GeForce RTX 3050 6 GB
11089
GeForce 8500 GT
GeForce RTX 3050 6 GB
Architecture
Tesla (2006−2010)
Ampere (2020−2022)
GPU code name
G86
GA107
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
April 2007
February 2024
Interface
PCIe 1.0 x16
PCIe 4.0 x8
Supplementary power connectors
None
None
SLI options
+
-
Boost clock speed
-
1470 MHz
Core clock speed
459 MHz
-
Floating-point performance
29.376 gflops
-
Manufacturing process technology
80 nm
8 nm
Number of transistors
210 million
8,700 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
16
2304
Power consumption (TDP)
30 Watt
70 Watt
Texture fill rate
3.6 billion/sec
105.8
Memory type
GDDR3
GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount
256 MB
6 GB
Memory bus width
128 Bit
96 Bit
Memory clock speed
800 MHz
14 GB/s
Memory bandwidth
12.8 GB/s
168.0 GB/s
Standard memory config per GPU
256 MB
-
Display Connectors
1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
1x HDMI 2.1, 3x DisplayPort 1.4a
HDMI
-
+
DirectX
11.1 (10_0)
12 Ultimate (12_2)
CUDA
1.1
8.6
OpenCL
1.1
3.0
OpenGL
2.1
4.6
Shader Model
4.0
6.7
Vulkan
N/A
1.3