GeForce GTX 460 and GeForce 8500 GT - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score GeForce GTX 460 vs GeForce 8500 GT
GeForce GTX 460
2330
GeForce 8500 GT
140
GeForce GTX 460
GeForce 8500 GT
Architecture
Fermi (2010−2014)
Tesla (2006−2010)
GPU code name
GF104
G86
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
July 2010
April 2007
Bus support
16x PCI-E 2.0
-
Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
PCIe 1.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
6-pin & 6-pin
None
SLI options
+
+
Core clock speed
675 MHz
459 MHz
Floating-point performance
907.2 gflops
29.376 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
40 nm
80 nm
Number of transistors
1,950 million
210 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
336
16
Power consumption (TDP)
160 Watt
30 Watt
Texture fill rate
37.80
3.6 billion/sec
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR3
Maximum RAM amount
2 GB
256 MB
Memory bus width
192 Bit
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
3600 MHz
800 MHz
Memory bandwidth
86.4 GB/s
12.8 GB/s
Standard memory config per GPU
-
256 MB
Display Connectors
Two Dual Link DVI, Mini HDMI
1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
Multi monitor support
+
-
HDMI
+
-
HDCP
+
-
Maximum VGA resolution
2048x1536
-
Audio input for HDMI
Internal
-
DirectX
12 (11_0)
11.1 (10_0)
CUDA
+
1.1
OpenCL
1.1
1.1
OpenGL
4.1
2.1
Shader Model
5.1
4.0
Vulkan
N/A
N/A