NVIDIA GeForce 8500 GT videocard review

NVIDIA GeForce 8500 GT

GeForce 8500 GT videocard released by NVIDIA; release date: 17 April 2007. At the time of release, the videocard cost $129. The videocard is designed for desktop-computers and based on Tesla microarchitecture codenamed G86.

Core clock speed - 459 MHz. Texture fill rate - 3.6 billion / sec. Pipelines - 16. Floating-point performance - 29.376 gflops. Manufacturing process technology - 80 nm. Transistors count - 210 million. Power consumption (TDP) - 30 Watt.

Memory type: GDDR3. Maximum RAM amount - 256 MB. Memory bus width - 128 Bit. Memory clock speed - 800 MHz. Memory bandwidth - 12.8 GB / s.

Benchmarks

PassMark
G3D Mark
Top 1 GPU
This GPU
38579
139
PassMark
G2D Mark
Top 1 GPU
This GPU
1295
33
GFXBench 4.0
T-Rex
Top 1 GPU
This GPU
69225 Frames
996 Frames
GFXBench 4.0
T-Rex
Top 1 GPU
This GPU
69225.000 Fps
996.000 Fps
Name Value
PassMark - G3D Mark 139
PassMark - G2D Mark 33
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex 996 Frames
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex 996.000 Fps

Specifications (specs)

Essentials

Architecture Tesla
Code name G86
Launch date 17 April 2007
Launch price (MSRP) $129
Place in performance rating 1657
Type Desktop

Technical info

Core clock speed 459 MHz
Floating-point performance 29.376 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 80 nm
Pipelines 16
Texture fill rate 3.6 billion / sec
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 30 Watt
Transistor count 210 million

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors 1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Interface PCIe 1.0 x16
Length 229 mm
Supplementary power connectors None

API support

DirectX 10.0
OpenGL 2.1

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 256 MB
Memory bandwidth 12.8 GB / s
Memory bus width 128 Bit
Memory clock speed 800 MHz
Memory type GDDR3
Standard memory config per GPU 256 MB

Technologies

SLI