GeForce 8500 GT and Radeon HD 2900 XT - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score GeForce 8500 GT vs Radeon HD 2900 XT
GeForce 8500 GT
140
Radeon HD 2900 XT
679
GeForce 8500 GT
Radeon HD 2900 XT
Architecture
Tesla (2006−2010)
TeraScale (2005−2013)
GPU code name
G86
R600
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
April 2007
May 2007
Interface
PCIe 1.0 x16
PCIe 1.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
None
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
SLI options
+
-
Core clock speed
459 MHz
743 MHz
Floating-point performance
29.376 gflops
475.5 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
80 nm
80 nm
Number of transistors
210 million
720 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
16
320
Power consumption (TDP)
30 Watt
215 Watt
Texture fill rate
3.6 billion/sec
11.89
Memory type
GDDR3
GDDR3
Maximum RAM amount
256 MB
512 MB
Memory bus width
128 Bit
512 Bit
Memory clock speed
800 MHz
1656 MHz
Memory bandwidth
12.8 GB/s
106.0 GB/s
Standard memory config per GPU
256 MB
-
Display Connectors
1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
2x DVI, 1x S-Video
DirectX
11.1 (10_0)
10.0 (10_0)
CUDA
1.1
-
OpenCL
1.1
N/A
OpenGL
2.1
3.3
Shader Model
4.0
4.0
Vulkan
N/A
N/A