GeForce 8500 GT and RTX A400 - video card comparison

GeForce 8500 GT

RTX A400

Architecture

Tesla (2006−2010)

Ampere (2020−2022)

GPU code name

G86

GA107

Market segment

Desktop

Desktop

Release date

April 2007

April 2024

Interface

PCIe 1.0 x16

PCIe 4.0 x8

Supplementary power connectors

None

None

SLI options

+

-

Boost clock speed

-

1762 MHz

Core clock speed

459 MHz

-

Floating-point performance

29.376 gflops

-

Manufacturing process technology

80 nm

8 nm

Number of transistors

210 million

8,700 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

16

768

Power consumption (TDP)

30 Watt

50 Watt

Texture fill rate

3.6 billion/sec

42.29

Memory type

GDDR3

GDDR6

Maximum RAM amount

256 MB

4 GB

Memory bus width

128 Bit

64 Bit

Memory clock speed

800 MHz

12 GB/s

Memory bandwidth

12.8 GB/s

96 GB/s

Standard memory config per GPU

256 MB

-

Display Connectors

1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video

4x mini-DisplayPort 1.4a

DirectX

11.1 (10_0)

12 Ultimate (12_2)

CUDA

1.1

8.6

OpenCL

1.1

3.0

OpenGL

2.1

4.6

Shader Model

4.0

6.7

Vulkan

N/A

1.3