GeForce 8500 GT and ION 2 - video card comparison
GeForce 8500 GT
ION 2
Architecture
Tesla (2006−2010)
GT2xx (2009−2012)
GPU code name
G86
GT218-ION-A3, GT218-ILV-A3
Market segment
Desktop
Laptop
Release date
April 2007
January 2010
Interface
PCIe 1.0 x16
PCIe 2.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
None
-
SLI options
+
-
Core clock speed
459 MHz
405 / 475 / 535 MHz
Floating-point performance
29.376 gflops
-
Manufacturing process technology
80 nm
40 nm
Number of transistors
210 million
260 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
16
16
Power consumption (TDP)
30 Watt
6/12 Watt
Texture fill rate
3.6 billion/sec
4.000
Memory type
GDDR3
DDR2, DDR3
Maximum RAM amount
256 MB
512 MB
Memory bus width
128 Bit
64 Bit
Memory clock speed
800 MHz
790 MHz
Memory bandwidth
12.8 GB/s
-
Shared memory
-
-
Standard memory config per GPU
256 MB
-
Display Connectors
1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
No outputs
DirectX
11.1 (10_0)
11.1 (10_1)
CUDA
1.1
1.2
OpenCL
1.1
1.1
OpenGL
2.1
3.3
Shader Model
4.0
4.1
Vulkan
N/A
N/A