GeForce 8500 GT and GeForce RTX 3070 - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score GeForce 8500 GT vs GeForce RTX 3070
GeForce 8500 GT
140
GeForce RTX 3070
23060
GeForce 8500 GT
GeForce RTX 3070
Architecture
Tesla (2006−2010)
Ampere (2020−2022)
GPU code name
G86
Ampere GA104
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
April 2007
September 2020
Interface
PCIe 1.0 x16
PCIe 4.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
None
1x 12-pin
SLI options
+
-
Boost clock speed
-
1725 MHz
Core clock speed
459 MHz
1500 MHz
Floating-point performance
29.376 gflops
-
Manufacturing process technology
80 nm
8 nm
Number of transistors
210 million
17,400 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
16
5888
Power consumption (TDP)
30 Watt
220 Watt
Texture fill rate
3.6 billion/sec
317.4
Memory type
GDDR3
GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount
256 MB
8 GB
Memory bus width
128 Bit
256 Bit
Memory clock speed
800 MHz
14000 MHz
Memory bandwidth
12.8 GB/s
448.0 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
8.5
OpenCL
1.1
2.0
OpenGL
2.1
4.6
Shader Model
4.0
6.5
Vulkan
N/A
1.2