NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1630 vs NVIDIA GeForce 8500 GT

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1630 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, Geekbench - OpenCL, GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps).

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1630

NVIDIA GeForce 8500 GT

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1630

Videocard is newer: launch date 15 year(s) 2 month(s) later
3.8x more core clock speed: 1740 MHz vs 459 MHz
15866.7x more texture fill rate: 57.12 GTexel/s vs 3.6 billion / sec
32x more pipelines: 512 vs 16
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 12 nm vs 80 nm
16x more maximum memory size: 4 GB vs 256 MB
Around 88% higher memory clock speed: 1500 MHz, 12 Gbps effective vs 800 MHz
20.5x better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 656 vs 32
33.4x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 4975 vs 149

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	28 Jun 2022 vs 17 April 2007
Core clock speed	1740 MHz vs 459 MHz
Texture fill rate	57.12 GTexel/s vs 3.6 billion / sec
Pipelines	512 vs 16
Manufacturing process technology	12 nm vs 80 nm
Maximum memory size	4 GB vs 256 MB
Memory clock speed	1500 MHz, 12 Gbps effective vs 800 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark	656 vs 32
PassMark - G3D Mark	4975 vs 149

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 8500 GT

2.5x lower typical power consumption: 30 Watt vs 75 Watt

Thermal Design Power (TDP)	30 Watt vs 75 Watt

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1630
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce 8500 GT

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

656

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

4975

149

Name	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1630	NVIDIA GeForce 8500 GT
PassMark - G2D Mark	656	32
PassMark - G3D Mark	4975	149
Geekbench - OpenCL	24861
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)		996
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)		996

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1630	NVIDIA GeForce 8500 GT
Essentials
Architecture	Turing	Tesla
Code name	TU117	G86
Launch date	28 Jun 2022	17 April 2007
Place in performance rating	253	1657
Launch price (MSRP)		$129
Type		Desktop
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1785 MHz
Core clock speed	1740 MHz	459 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	12 nm	80 nm
Peak Double Precision (FP64) Performance	57.12 GFLOPS (1:32)
Peak Half Precision (FP16) Performance	3.656 TFLOPS (2:1)
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance	1.828 TFLOPS
Pipelines	512	16
Pixel fill rate	28.56 GPixel/s
Texture fill rate	57.12 GTexel/s	3.6 billion / sec
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	75 Watt	30 Watt
Transistor count	4700 million	210 million
Floating-point performance		29.376 gflops
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	1x DVI, 1x HDMI 2.0, 1x DisplayPort 1.4a	1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Form factor	Single-slot
Height	18 mm, 0.7 inches
Interface	PCIe 3.0 x8	PCIe 1.0 x16
Length	145 mm, 5.7 inches	229 mm
Recommended system power (PSU)	250 Watt
Supplementary power connectors	None	None
Width	69 mm, 2.7 inches
API support
DirectX	12 (12_1)	10.0
OpenCL	3.0
OpenGL	4.6	2.1
Shader Model	6.7 (6.4)
Vulkan
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	4 GB	256 MB
Memory bandwidth	96.00 GB/s	12.8 GB / s
Memory bus width	64 bit	128 Bit
Memory clock speed	1500 MHz, 12 Gbps effective	800 MHz
Memory type	GDDR6	GDDR3
Standard memory config per GPU		256 MB
Technologies
SLI