
GeForce 8500 GT and Radeon 680M - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score GeForce 8500 GT vs Radeon 680M
GeForce 8500 GT
140
Radeon 680M
6351
GeForce 8500 GT
Radeon 680M
Architecture
Tesla (2006−2010)
RDNA 2 (2020−2022)
GPU code name
G86
RDNA 2 Rembrandt
Market segment
Desktop
Laptop
Release date
April 2007
January 2022
Interface
PCIe 1.0 x16
PCIe 4.0 x8
Supplementary power connectors
None
None
SLI options
+
-
Boost clock speed
-
2400 MHz
Core clock speed
459 MHz
-
Floating-point performance
29.376 gflops
-
Manufacturing process technology
80 nm
6 nm
Number of transistors
210 million
13,100 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
16
768
Power consumption (TDP)
30 Watt
45 Watt
Texture fill rate
3.6 billion/sec
115.2
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
-
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)
12 (12_1)
CUDA
1.1
-
OpenCL
1.1
2.0
OpenGL
2.1
4.6
Shader Model
4.0
6.5
Vulkan
N/A
1.2