GeForce 8500 GT and HD Graphics 6EU - video card comparison
GeForce 8500 GT
HD Graphics 6EU
Architecture
Tesla (2006−2010)
Generation 7.0 (2012)
GPU code name
G86
Ivy Bridge GT1
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
April 2007
April 2012
Interface
PCIe 1.0 x16
Ring Bus
Supplementary power connectors
None
-
SLI options
+
-
Boost clock speed
-
1050 MHz
Core clock speed
459 MHz
-
Floating-point performance
29.376 gflops
-
Manufacturing process technology
80 nm
22 nm
Number of transistors
210 million
392 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
16
48
Power consumption (TDP)
30 Watt
-
Texture fill rate
3.6 billion/sec
6.300
Memory type
GDDR3
System Shared
Maximum RAM amount
256 MB
System Shared
Memory bus width
128 Bit
System Shared
Memory clock speed
800 MHz
System Shared
Memory bandwidth
12.8 GB/s
-
Standard memory config per GPU
256 MB
-
Display Connectors
1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
Motherboard Dependent
DirectX
11.1 (10_0)
11.1 (11_0)
CUDA
1.1
-
OpenCL
1.1
1.2
OpenGL
2.1
4.0
Shader Model
4.0
5.0
Vulkan
N/A
+