
GeForce 8500 GT and Quadro NVS 160M - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score GeForce 8500 GT vs Quadro NVS 160M
GeForce 8500 GT
140
Quadro NVS 160M
141
GeForce 8500 GT
Quadro NVS 160M
Architecture
Tesla (2006−2010)
Tesla (2006−2010)
GPU code name
G86
G98
Market segment
Desktop
Mobile workstation
Release date
April 2007
August 2008
Interface
PCIe 1.0 x16
MXM-I
Supplementary power connectors
None
-
SLI options
+
-
Core clock speed
459 MHz
580 MHz
Floating-point performance
29.376 gflops
23.2 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
80 nm
65 nm
Number of transistors
210 million
210 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
16
8
Power consumption (TDP)
30 Watt
12 Watt
Texture fill rate
3.6 billion/sec
4.640
Memory type
GDDR3
GDDR2, GDDR3
Maximum RAM amount
256 MB
256 MB
Memory bus width
128 Bit
64 Bit
Memory clock speed
800 MHz
700 MHz
Memory bandwidth
12.8 GB/s
11.2 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_0)
CUDA
1.1
1.1
OpenCL
1.1
1.1
OpenGL
2.1
3.3
Shader Model
4.0
4.0
Vulkan
N/A
N/A