NVIDIA NVS 300 vs NVIDIA GeForce 8500 GT
Comparative analysis of NVIDIA NVS 300 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, GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps).
Differences
Reasons to consider the NVIDIA NVS 300
- Videocard is newer: launch date 3 year(s) 8 month(s) later
- Around 13% higher core clock speed: 520 MHz vs 459 MHz
- Around 16% higher texture fill rate: 4.16 GTexel / s vs 3.6 billion / sec
- Around 34% better floating-point performance: 39.36 gflops vs 29.376 gflops
- A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 40 nm vs 80 nm
- Around 67% lower typical power consumption: 18 Watt vs 30 Watt
- 2x more maximum memory size: 512 MB vs 256 MB
- Around 98% higher memory clock speed: 1580 MHz vs 800 MHz
- Around 28% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 41 vs 32
Specifications (specs) | |
Launch date | 8 January 2011 vs 17 April 2007 |
Core clock speed | 520 MHz vs 459 MHz |
Texture fill rate | 4.16 GTexel / s vs 3.6 billion / sec |
Floating-point performance | 39.36 gflops vs 29.376 gflops |
Manufacturing process technology | 40 nm vs 80 nm |
Thermal Design Power (TDP) | 18 Watt vs 30 Watt |
Maximum memory size | 512 MB vs 256 MB |
Memory clock speed | 1580 MHz vs 800 MHz |
Benchmarks | |
PassMark - G2D Mark | 41 vs 32 |
Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 8500 GT
- Around 19% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 145 vs 122
Benchmarks | |
PassMark - G3D Mark | 145 vs 122 |
Compare benchmarks
GPU 1: NVIDIA NVS 300
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce 8500 GT
PassMark - G3D Mark |
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PassMark - G2D Mark |
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GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) |
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Name | NVIDIA NVS 300 | NVIDIA GeForce 8500 GT |
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PassMark - G3D Mark | 122 | 145 |
PassMark - G2D Mark | 41 | 32 |
Geekbench - OpenCL | 2471 | |
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) | 996 | 996 |
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) | 996 | 996 |
Compare specifications (specs)
NVIDIA NVS 300 | NVIDIA GeForce 8500 GT | |
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Essentials |
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Architecture | Tesla 2.0 | Tesla |
Code name | GT218 | G86 |
Launch date | 8 January 2011 | 17 April 2007 |
Launch price (MSRP) | $109 | $129 |
Place in performance rating | 1654 | 1657 |
Type | Workstation | Desktop |
Technical info |
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Core clock speed | 520 MHz | 459 MHz |
Floating-point performance | 39.36 gflops | 29.376 gflops |
Manufacturing process technology | 40 nm | 80 nm |
Pipelines | 16 | 16 |
Texture fill rate | 4.16 GTexel / s | 3.6 billion / sec |
Thermal Design Power (TDP) | 18 Watt | 30 Watt |
Transistor count | 260 million | 210 million |
Video outputs and ports |
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Display Connectors | 1x DMS-59 | 1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video |
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements |
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Interface | PCIe 2.0 x16 | PCIe 1.0 x16 |
Length | 145 mm | 229 mm |
Supplementary power connectors | None | None |
API support |
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DirectX | 10.1 | 10.0 |
OpenGL | 3.3 | 2.1 |
Memory |
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Maximum RAM amount | 512 MB | 256 MB |
Memory bandwidth | 12.64 GB / s | 12.8 GB / s |
Memory bus width | 64 Bit | 128 Bit |
Memory clock speed | 1580 MHz | 800 MHz |
Memory type | DDR3 | GDDR3 |
Standard memory config per GPU | 256 MB | |
Technologies |
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