NVIDIA GeForce G103M vs NVIDIA GeForce 8500 GT

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce G103M 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 - G2D Mark, PassMark - G3D Mark, GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps).

NVIDIA GeForce G103M

NVIDIA GeForce 8500 GT

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce G103M

Videocard is newer: launch date 2 year(s) 4 month(s) later
Around 39% higher core clock speed: 640 MHz vs 459 MHz
Around 42% higher texture fill rate: 5.12 GTexel / s vs 3.6 billion / sec
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 65 nm vs 80 nm
2.1x lower typical power consumption: 14 Watt vs 30 Watt
2x more maximum memory size: 512 MB vs 256 MB
Around 25% higher memory clock speed: 1000 MHz vs 800 MHz
Around 3% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 34 vs 33

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	1 September 2009 vs 17 April 2007
Core clock speed	640 MHz vs 459 MHz
Texture fill rate	5.12 GTexel / s vs 3.6 billion / sec
Manufacturing process technology	65 nm vs 80 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	14 Watt vs 30 Watt
Maximum memory size	512 MB vs 256 MB
Memory clock speed	1000 MHz vs 800 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark	34 vs 33

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 8500 GT

2x more pipelines: 16 vs 8
Around 15% better floating-point performance: 29.376 gflops vs 25.6 gflops
2.2x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 139 vs 63

Specifications (specs)
Pipelines	16 vs 8
Floating-point performance	29.376 gflops vs 25.6 gflops
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	139 vs 63

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce G103M
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce 8500 GT

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

139

Name	NVIDIA GeForce G103M	NVIDIA GeForce 8500 GT
PassMark - G2D Mark	34	33
PassMark - G3D Mark	63	139
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)		996
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)		996

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GeForce G103M	NVIDIA GeForce 8500 GT
Essentials
Architecture	Tesla	Tesla
Code name	G98	G86
Launch date	1 September 2009	17 April 2007
Place in performance rating	1655	1657
Type	Desktop	Desktop
Launch price (MSRP)		$129
Technical info
Core clock speed	640 MHz	459 MHz
Floating-point performance	25.6 gflops	29.376 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	65 nm	80 nm
Pipelines	8	16
Texture fill rate	5.12 GTexel / s	3.6 billion / sec
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	14 Watt	30 Watt
Transistor count	210 million	210 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	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
API support
DirectX	10.0	10.0
OpenGL	3.3	2.1
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	512 MB	256 MB
Memory bandwidth	8 GB / s	12.8 GB / s
Memory bus width	64 Bit	128 Bit
Memory clock speed	1000 MHz	800 MHz
Memory type	DDR2	GDDR3
Standard memory config per GPU		256 MB
Technologies
SLI