GeForce 8500 GT and Quadro FX 560 - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score GeForce 8500 GT vs Quadro FX 560
GeForce 8500 GT
140
Quadro FX 560
116
GeForce 8500 GT
Quadro FX 560
Architecture
Tesla (2006−2010)
Curie (2003−2013)
GPU code name
G86
G73
Market segment
Desktop
Workstation
Release date
April 2007
April 2006
Interface
PCIe 1.0 x16
PCIe 1.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
None
None
SLI options
+
-
Core clock speed
459 MHz
350 MHz
Floating-point performance
29.376 gflops
-
Manufacturing process technology
80 nm
90 nm
Number of transistors
210 million
177 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
16
-
Power consumption (TDP)
30 Watt
30 Watt
Texture fill rate
3.6 billion/sec
4.200
Memory type
GDDR3
GDDR3
Maximum RAM amount
256 MB
128 MB
Memory bus width
128 Bit
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
800 MHz
1200 MHz
Memory bandwidth
12.8 GB/s
19.2 GB/s
Standard memory config per GPU
256 MB
-
Display Connectors
1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
2x DVI, 1x S-Video
DirectX
11.1 (10_0)
9.0c (9_3)
CUDA
1.1
-
OpenCL
1.1
N/A
OpenGL
2.1
2.1
Shader Model
4.0
3.0
Vulkan
N/A
N/A