GeForce 9500M GS and GeForce 8500 GT - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score GeForce 9500M GS vs GeForce 8500 GT
GeForce 9500M GS
138
GeForce 8500 GT
140
GeForce 9500M GS
GeForce 8500 GT
Architecture
G8x (2007−2008)
Tesla (2006−2010)
GPU code name
NB9P-GE1
G86
Market segment
Laptop
Desktop
Release date
February 2008
April 2007
Interface
PCIe 1.0 x16
PCIe 1.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
-
None
SLI options
-
+
Core clock speed
475 MHz
459 MHz
CUDA cores
32
-
Floating-point performance
60.8 gflops
29.376 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
80 nm
80 nm
Number of transistors
289 million
210 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
32
16
Power consumption (TDP)
20 Watt
30 Watt
Texture fill rate
7.600
3.6 billion/sec
Memory type
GDDR2 / GDDR3
GDDR3
Maximum RAM amount
512 MB
256 MB
Memory bus width
128 Bit
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
700 MHz
800 MHz
Memory bandwidth
22.4 GB/s
12.8 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Standard memory config per GPU
-
256 MB
Display Connectors
No outputs
1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
DirectX
11.1 (10_0)
11.1 (10_0)
CUDA
1.1
1.1
OpenCL
1.1
1.1
OpenGL
3.3
2.1
Shader Model
4.0
4.0
Vulkan
N/A
N/A