GeForce 8500 GT and Radeon 540X - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score GeForce 8500 GT vs Radeon 540X
GeForce 8500 GT
140
Radeon 540X
1472
GeForce 8500 GT
Radeon 540X
Architecture
Tesla (2006−2010)
GCN 4.0 (2016−2020)
GPU code name
G86
Lexa
Market segment
Desktop
Laptop
Release date
April 2007
August 2019
Interface
PCIe 1.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x8
Supplementary power connectors
None
None
SLI options
+
-
Boost clock speed
-
1219 MHz
Core clock speed
459 MHz
-
Floating-point performance
29.376 gflops
-
Manufacturing process technology
80 nm
14 nm
Number of transistors
210 million
2,200 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
16
512
Power consumption (TDP)
30 Watt
50 Watt
Texture fill rate
3.6 billion/sec
33.47
Memory type
GDDR3
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
256 MB
2 GB
Memory bus width
128 Bit
64 Bit
Memory clock speed
800 MHz
6000 MHz
Memory bandwidth
12.8 GB/s
112.0 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Standard memory config per GPU
256 MB
-
Display Connectors
1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort
HDMI
-
+
DirectX
11.1 (10_0)
12 (12_0)
CUDA
1.1
-
OpenCL
1.1
2.0
OpenGL
2.1
4.6
Shader Model
4.0
6.4
Vulkan
N/A
1.2.131