GeForce 8500 GT and Radeon 3000 IGP - video card comparison
GeForce 8500 GT
Radeon 3000 IGP
Architecture
Tesla (2006−2010)
TeraScale (2005−2013)
GPU code name
G86
RS780
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
April 2007
2009
Interface
PCIe 1.0 x16
PCIe 1.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
None
-
SLI options
+
-
Core clock speed
459 MHz
350 MHz
Floating-point performance
29.376 gflops
-
Manufacturing process technology
80 nm
65 nm
Number of transistors
210 million
180 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
16
40
Power consumption (TDP)
30 Watt
-
Texture fill rate
3.6 billion/sec
1.400
Memory type
GDDR3
System Shared
Maximum RAM amount
256 MB
System Shared
Memory bus width
128 Bit
System Shared
Memory clock speed
800 MHz
System Shared
Memory bandwidth
12.8 GB/s
-
Standard memory config per GPU
256 MB
-
Display Connectors
1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
Motherboard Dependent
DirectX
11.1 (10_0)
10.0 (10_0)
CUDA
1.1
-
OpenCL
1.1
1.0
OpenGL
2.1
3.3
Shader Model
4.0
4.1
Vulkan
N/A
N/A