GeForce RTX 3080 and GeForce 8500 GT - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score GeForce RTX 3080 vs GeForce 8500 GT
GeForce RTX 3080
26041
GeForce 8500 GT
140
GeForce RTX 3080
GeForce 8500 GT
Architecture
Ampere (2020−2022)
Tesla (2006−2010)
GPU code name
Ampere GA102
G86
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
September 2020
April 2007
Interface
PCIe 4.0 x16
PCIe 1.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
1x 12-pin
None
SLI options
-
+
Boost clock speed
1710 MHz
-
Core clock speed
1450 MHz
459 MHz
Floating-point performance
-
29.376 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
8 nm
80 nm
Number of transistors
28,300 million
210 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
8704
16
Power consumption (TDP)
320 Watt
30 Watt
Texture fill rate
465.1
3.6 billion/sec
Memory type
GDDR6X
GDDR3
Maximum RAM amount
10 GB
256 MB
Memory bus width
320 Bit
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
19000 MHz
800 MHz
Memory bandwidth
760.3 GB/s
12.8 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Standard memory config per GPU
-
256 MB
Display Connectors
1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort
1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
HDMI
+
-
DirectX
12 Ultimate (12_2)
11.1 (10_0)
CUDA
8.5
1.1
OpenCL
2.0
1.1
OpenGL
4.6
2.1
Shader Model
6.5
4.0
Vulkan
1.2
N/A