Radeon HD 3470 and GeForce 8500 GT - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score Radeon HD 3470 vs GeForce 8500 GT
Radeon HD 3470
122
GeForce 8500 GT
140
Radeon HD 3470
GeForce 8500 GT
Architecture
TeraScale (2005−2013)
Tesla (2006−2010)
GPU code name
RV620
G86
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
January 2008
April 2007
Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
PCIe 1.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
None
None
SLI options
-
+
Core clock speed
800 MHz
459 MHz
Floating-point performance
64 gflops
29.376 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
55 nm
80 nm
Number of transistors
181 million
210 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
40
16
Power consumption (TDP)
30 Watt
30 Watt
Texture fill rate
3.200
3.6 billion/sec
Memory type
GDDR3
GDDR3
Maximum RAM amount
256 MB
256 MB
Memory bus width
64 Bit
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
1900 MHz
800 MHz
Memory bandwidth
15.2 GB/s
12.8 GB/s
Standard memory config per GPU
-
256 MB
Display Connectors
1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
DirectX
10.1 (10_1)
11.1 (10_0)
CUDA
-
1.1
OpenCL
N/A
1.1
OpenGL
3.3
2.1
Shader Model
4.1
4.0
Vulkan
N/A
N/A