GeForce 8500 GT and GeForce RTX 3060 - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score GeForce 8500 GT vs GeForce RTX 3060
GeForce 8500 GT
140
GeForce RTX 3060
17598
GeForce 8500 GT
GeForce RTX 3060
Architecture
Tesla (2006−2010)
Ampere (2020−2022)
GPU code name
G86
Ampere GA106
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
April 2007
January 2021
Interface
PCIe 1.0 x16
PCIe 4.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
None
1x 12-pin
SLI options
+
-
Boost clock speed
-
1777 MHz
Core clock speed
459 MHz
1320 MHz
Floating-point performance
29.376 gflops
-
Manufacturing process technology
80 nm
8 nm
Number of transistors
210 million
13,250 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
16
3584
Power consumption (TDP)
30 Watt
170 Watt
Texture fill rate
3.6 billion/sec
199.0
Memory type
GDDR3
GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount
256 MB
12 GB
Memory bus width
128 Bit
192 Bit
Memory clock speed
800 MHz
15000 MHz
Memory bandwidth
12.8 GB/s
360.0 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Standard memory config per GPU
256 MB
-
Display Connectors
1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort
HDMI
-
+
DirectX
11.1 (10_0)
12 Ultimate (12_2)
CUDA
1.1
8.6
OpenCL
1.1
2.0
OpenGL
2.1
4.6
Shader Model
4.0
6.5
Vulkan
N/A
1.2