GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB and GeForce 8500 GT - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB vs GeForce 8500 GT
GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB
10560
GeForce 8500 GT
140
GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB
GeForce 8500 GT
Architecture
Pascal (2016−2021)
Tesla (2006−2010)
GPU code name
GP106
G86
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
July 2016
April 2007
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 1.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
1x 6-pin
None
SLI options
-
+
Boost clock speed
1708 MHz
-
Core clock speed
1506 MHz
459 MHz
Floating-point performance
4,375 gflops
29.376 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
16 nm
80 nm
Number of transistors
4,400 million
210 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
1280
16
Power consumption (TDP)
120 Watt
30 Watt
Texture fill rate
136.7
3.6 billion/sec
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR3
Maximum RAM amount
6 GB
256 MB
Memory bus width
192 Bit
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
8000 MHz
800 MHz
Memory bandwidth
192.2 GB/s
12.8 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Standard memory config per GPU
-
256 MB
Display Connectors
1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort
1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
HDMI
+
-
G-SYNC support
+
-
DirectX
12 (12_1)
11.1 (10_0)
CUDA
6.1
1.1
OpenCL
1.2
1.1
OpenGL
4.6
2.1
Shader Model
6.4
4.0
Vulkan
1.2.131
N/A
VR Ready
+
-