GeForce 8500 GT and Radeon HD 6570 OEM - video card comparison
GeForce 8500 GT
Radeon HD 6570 OEM
Architecture
Tesla (2006−2010)
TeraScale 2 (2009−2015)
GPU code name
G86
Turks
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
April 2007
February 2011
Interface
PCIe 1.0 x16
PCIe 2.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
None
None
SLI options
+
-
Core clock speed
459 MHz
650 MHz
Floating-point performance
29.376 gflops
624.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
80 nm
40 nm
Number of transistors
210 million
716 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
16
480
Power consumption (TDP)
30 Watt
44 Watt
Texture fill rate
3.6 billion/sec
15.60
Memory type
GDDR3
GDDR3
Maximum RAM amount
256 MB
1 GB
Memory bus width
128 Bit
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
800 MHz
1800 MHz
Memory bandwidth
12.8 GB/s
28.8 GB/s
Standard memory config per GPU
256 MB
-
Display Connectors
1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x VGA
HDMI
-
+
DirectX
11.1 (10_0)
11.2 (11_0)
CUDA
1.1
-
OpenCL
1.1
1.2
OpenGL
2.1
4.4
Shader Model
4.0
5.0
Vulkan
N/A
N/A