GeForce RTX 2060 Mobile vs 8500 GT

Primary details

GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.

Place in the ranking	not rated	181
Place by popularity	not in top-100	not in top-100
Power efficiency	no data	18.45
Architecture	Tesla (2006−2010)	Turing (2018−2022)
GPU code name	G86	TU106
Market segment	Desktop	Laptop
Release date	17 April 2007 (17 years ago)	29 January 2019 (5 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)	$129	no data

Detailed specifications

General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores	16	1920
Core clock speed	459 MHz	960 MHz
Boost clock speed	no data	1200 MHz
Number of transistors	210 million	10,800 million
Manufacturing process technology	80 nm	12 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	30 Watt	115 Watt
Texture fill rate	3.672	144.0
Floating-point processing power	0.02938 TFLOPS	4.608 TFLOPS
ROPs	4	48
TMUs	8	120
Tensor Cores	no data	240
Ray Tracing Cores	no data	30

Form factor & compatibility

Information on compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

Laptop size	no data	large
Interface	PCIe 1.0 x16	PCIe 3.0 x16
Length	229 mm	no data
Width	1-slot	no data
Supplementary power connectors	None	no data
SLI options	+	-

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory type	GDDR3	GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount	256 MB	6 GB
Standard memory config per GPU	256 MB	no data
Memory bus width	128 Bit	192 Bit
Memory clock speed	400 MHz	1750 MHz
Memory bandwidth	12.8 GB/s	336.0 GB/s
Shared memory	-	-

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on the reviewed GPUs. As a rule, data in this section is precise only for desktop reference ones (so-called Founders Edition for NVIDIA chips). OEM manufacturers may change the number and type of output ports, while for notebook cards availability of certain video outputs ports depends on the laptop model rather than on the card itself.

Display Connectors	1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video	No outputs
G-SYNC support	-	+

Supported technologies

Supported technological solutions. This information will prove useful if you need some particular technology for your purposes.

VR Ready

no data

+

API compatibility

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX	11.1 (10_0)	12 Ultimate (12_1)
Shader Model	4.0	6.5
OpenGL	2.1	4.6
OpenCL	1.1	1.2
Vulkan	N/A	1.2.131
CUDA	1.1	7.5

Pros & cons summary

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Recency	17 April 2007	29 January 2019
Maximum RAM amount	256 MB	6 GB
Chip lithography	80 nm	12 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	30 Watt	115 Watt

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