NVIDIA GeForce 920M vs NVIDIA GeForce 8500 GT

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce 920M and NVIDIA GeForce 8500 GT 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, Geekbench - OpenCL, CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps), 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score.

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 920M

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 7 year(s) 10 month(s) later
  • 2.1x more core clock speed: 954 MHz vs 459 MHz
  • 3.4x more texture fill rate: 12.4 GTexel / s vs 3.6 billion / sec
  • 24x more pipelines: 384 vs 16
  • 10.1x better floating-point performance: 297.6 gflops vs 29.376 gflops
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 28 nm vs 80 nm
  • 16x more maximum memory size: 4 GB vs 256 MB
  • 2.3x more memory clock speed: 1800 MHz vs 800 MHz
  • 4.8x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 716 vs 149
  • 3.7x better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 119 vs 32
  • 3.4x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames): 3358 vs 996
  • 3.4x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps): 3358 vs 996
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 13 March 2015 vs 17 April 2007
Core clock speed 954 MHz vs 459 MHz
Texture fill rate 12.4 GTexel / s vs 3.6 billion / sec
Pipelines 384 vs 16
Floating-point performance 297.6 gflops vs 29.376 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 28 nm vs 80 nm
Maximum memory size 4 GB vs 256 MB
Memory clock speed 1800 MHz vs 800 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark 716 vs 149
PassMark - G2D Mark 119 vs 32
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 3358 vs 996
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3358 vs 996

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 8500 GT

  • Around 10% lower typical power consumption: 30 Watt vs 33 Watt
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 30 Watt vs 33 Watt

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce 920M
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce 8500 GT

PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
716
149
PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
119
32
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)
GPU 1
GPU 2
3358
996
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)
GPU 1
GPU 2
3358
996
Name NVIDIA GeForce 920M NVIDIA GeForce 8500 GT
PassMark - G3D Mark 716 149
PassMark - G2D Mark 119 32
Geekbench - OpenCL 3722
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s) 8.358
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s) 157.606
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s) 0.843
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s) 15.374
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s) 40.443
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 1598
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 3636
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 3358 996
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 1598
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 3636
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3358 996
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score 326

Compare specifications (specs)

NVIDIA GeForce 920M NVIDIA GeForce 8500 GT

Essentials

Architecture Kepler 2.0 Tesla
Code name GK208B G86
Launch date 13 March 2015 17 April 2007
Place in performance rating 1297 1657
Type Laptop Desktop
Launch price (MSRP) $129

Technical info

Core clock speed 954 MHz 459 MHz
Floating-point performance 297.6 gflops 29.376 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 28 nm 80 nm
Pipelines 384 16
Texture fill rate 12.4 GTexel / s 3.6 billion / sec
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 33 Watt 30 Watt
Transistor count 585 million 210 million

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors No outputs 1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Bus support PCI Express 3.0
Interface PCIe 3.0 x8 PCIe 1.0 x16
Length 229 mm
Supplementary power connectors None

API support

DirectX 12.0 (11_0) 10.0
OpenGL 4.5 2.1

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 4 GB 256 MB
Memory bandwidth 14.4 GB / s 12.8 GB / s
Memory bus width 64 Bit 128 Bit
Memory clock speed 1800 MHz 800 MHz
Memory type DDR3 GDDR3
Shared memory 0
Standard memory config per GPU 256 MB

Technologies

3D Vision
3D Vision / 3DTV Play
CUDA
GameWorks
GPU Boost
Optimus
Verde Drivers
SLI