GeForce 8500 GT and Quadro - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score GeForce 8500 GT vs Quadro
GeForce 8500 GT
140
Quadro
975
GeForce 8500 GT
Quadro
Architecture
Tesla (2006−2010)
Celsius (1999−2005)
GPU code name
G86
NV10
Market segment
Desktop
Workstation
Release date
April 2007
1999
Interface
PCIe 1.0 x16
AGP 4x
Supplementary power connectors
None
None
SLI options
+
-
Core clock speed
459 MHz
135 MHz
Floating-point performance
29.376 gflops
-
Manufacturing process technology
80 nm
220 nm
Number of transistors
210 million
17 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
16
-
Power consumption (TDP)
30 Watt
-
Texture fill rate
3.6 billion/sec
0.54
Memory type
GDDR3
SDR
Maximum RAM amount
256 MB
32 MB
Memory bus width
128 Bit
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
800 MHz
166 MHz
Memory bandwidth
12.8 GB/s
2.656 GB/s
Standard memory config per GPU
256 MB
-
Display Connectors
1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
1x VGA
DirectX
11.1 (10_0)
7.0
CUDA
1.1
-
OpenCL
1.1
N/A
OpenGL
2.1
1.2
Shader Model
4.0
-
Vulkan
N/A
N/A