GeForce 8500 GT and GeForce RTX 5080 - video card comparison

GeForce 8500 GT

GeForce RTX 5080

Architecture

Tesla (2006−2010)

Blackwell 2.0

GPU code name

G86

GB203

Market segment

Desktop

Desktop

Release date

April 2007

2025 (recently)

Interface

PCIe 1.0 x16

PCIe 5.0 x16

Supplementary power connectors

None

1x 16-pin

SLI options

+

-

Boost clock speed

-

2520 MHz

Core clock speed

459 MHz

-

Floating-point performance

29.376 gflops

-

Manufacturing process technology

80 nm

0 nm

Number of transistors

210 million

-

Pipelines / CUDA cores

16

10752

Power consumption (TDP)

30 Watt

350 Watt

Texture fill rate

3.6 billion/sec

846.7

Memory type

GDDR3

GDDR7

Maximum RAM amount

256 MB

16 GB

Memory bus width

128 Bit

256 Bit

Memory clock speed

800 MHz

5 GB/s

Memory bandwidth

12.8 GB/s

160.0 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

9.1

OpenCL

1.1

3.0

OpenGL

2.1

4.6

Shader Model

4.0

6.7

Vulkan

N/A

1.3