NVIDIA GeForce 8500 GT vs NVIDIA GeForce 7500 LE

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce 8500 GT and NVIDIA GeForce 7500 LE videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory, Technologies. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark, GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps).

NVIDIA GeForce 8500 GT

NVIDIA GeForce 7500 LE

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 8500 GT

Videocard is newer: launch date 1 year(s) 0 month(s) later
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 80 nm vs 90 nm
4x more maximum memory size: 256 MB vs 64 MB
Around 75% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 149 vs 85

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	17 April 2007 vs 22 March 2006
Manufacturing process technology	80 nm vs 90 nm
Maximum memory size	256 MB vs 64 MB
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	149 vs 85

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 7500 LE

Around 3% higher core clock speed: 475 MHz vs 459 MHz
Around 6% higher texture fill rate: 3.8 GTexel / s vs 3.6 billion / sec
Around 1% higher memory clock speed: 810 MHz vs 800 MHz
Around 44% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 46 vs 32

Specifications (specs)
Core clock speed	475 MHz vs 459 MHz
Texture fill rate	3.8 GTexel / s vs 3.6 billion / sec
Memory clock speed	810 MHz vs 800 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark	46 vs 32

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce 8500 GT
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce 7500 LE

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

149

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

Name	NVIDIA GeForce 8500 GT	NVIDIA GeForce 7500 LE
PassMark - G3D Mark	149	85
PassMark - G2D Mark	32	46
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	996
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	996

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GeForce 8500 GT	NVIDIA GeForce 7500 LE
Essentials
Architecture	Tesla	Curie
Code name	G86	G72
Launch date	17 April 2007	22 March 2006
Launch price (MSRP)	$129
Place in performance rating	1657	1623
Type	Desktop	Desktop
Technical info
Core clock speed	459 MHz	475 MHz
Floating-point performance	29.376 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	80 nm	90 nm
Pipelines	16
Texture fill rate	3.6 billion / sec	3.8 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	30 Watt
Transistor count	210 million	112 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video	1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 1.0 x16	PCIe 1.0 x16
Length	229 mm
Supplementary power connectors	None	None
API support
DirectX	10.0	9.0c
OpenGL	2.1	2.1
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	256 MB	64 MB
Memory bandwidth	12.8 GB / s	6.48 GB / s
Memory bus width	128 Bit	64 Bit
Memory clock speed	800 MHz	810 MHz
Memory type	GDDR3	DDR2
Standard memory config per GPU	256 MB
Technologies
SLI