NVIDIA GeForce 8500 GT videocard review

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

38534

145

PassMark
G2D Mark

Top 1 GPU

This GPU

1294

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	145
PassMark - G2D Mark	32
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