GeForce GTX 960M and GeForce 8500 GT - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score GeForce GTX 960M vs GeForce 8500 GT
GeForce GTX 960M
3496
GeForce 8500 GT
140
GeForce GTX 960M
GeForce 8500 GT
Architecture
Maxwell (2014−2018)
Tesla (2006−2010)
GPU code name
N16P-GX
G86
Market segment
Laptop
Desktop
Release date
March 2015
April 2007
Bus support
PCI Express 3.0
-
Interface
MXM-B (3.0)
PCIe 1.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
-
None
SLI options
+
+
Boost clock speed
1202 MHz
-
Core clock speed
1096 MHz
459 MHz
CUDA cores
640
-
Floating-point performance
1,505 gflops
29.376 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
80 nm
Number of transistors
1,870 million
210 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
640
16
Power consumption (TDP)
75 Watt
30 Watt
Texture fill rate
47.04
3.6 billion/sec
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR3
Maximum RAM amount
4 GB
256 MB
Memory bus width
128 Bit
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
2500 MHz
800 MHz
Memory bandwidth
80 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
VGA аnalog display support
+
-
DisplayPort Multimode (DP++) support
+
-
HDMI
+
-
DirectX
12 (11_0)
11.1 (10_0)
CUDA
+
1.1
OpenCL
1.2
1.1
OpenGL
4.5
2.1
Shader Model
5.1
4.0
Vulkan
1.1.126
N/A
Ansel
+
-
BatteryBoost
+
-
GameStream
+
-
GameWorks
+
-
GeForce ShadowPlay
+
-
GPU Boost
2.0
-
H.264, VC1, MPEG2 1080p video decoder
+
-
Optimus
+
-