RTX 6000 Ada Generation vs GeForce 8500 GT

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Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot rated17
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluationno data6.78
Power efficiencyno data16.69
ArchitectureTesla (2006−2010)Ada Lovelace (2022−2024)
GPU code nameG86AD102
Market segmentDesktopWorkstation
Release date17 April 2007 (17 years ago)3 December 2022 (1 year ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$129 $6,799

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

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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 cores1618176
Core clock speed459 MHz915 MHz
Boost clock speedno data2505 MHz
Number of transistors210 million76,300 million
Manufacturing process technology80 nm5 nm
Power consumption (TDP)30 Watt300 Watt
Texture fill rate3.6721,423
Floating-point processing power0.02938 TFLOPS91.06 TFLOPS
ROPs4192
TMUs8568
Tensor Coresno data568
Ray Tracing Coresno data142

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).

InterfacePCIe 1.0 x16PCIe 4.0 x16
Length229 mm267 mm
Width1-slot2-slot
Supplementary power connectorsNone1x 16-pin
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 typeGDDR3GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount256 MB48 GB
Standard memory config per GPU256 MBno data
Memory bus width128 Bit384 Bit
Memory clock speed400 MHz2500 MHz
Memory bandwidth12.8 GB/s960.0 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 Connectors1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video4x DisplayPort 1.4a

API compatibility

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

DirectX11.1 (10_0)12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Model4.06.8
OpenGL2.14.6
OpenCL1.13.0
VulkanN/A1.3
CUDA1.18.9

Synthetic benchmark performance

Non-gaming benchmark results comparison. The combined score is measured on a 0-100 point scale.



Passmark

This is the most ubiquitous GPU benchmark. It gives the graphics card a thorough evaluation under various types of load, providing four separate benchmarks for Direct3D versions 9, 10, 11 and 12 (the last being done in 4K resolution if possible), and few more tests engaging DirectCompute capabilities.

8500 GT 139
RTX 6000 Ada Generation 27821
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Pros & cons summary


Recency 17 April 2007 3 December 2022
Maximum RAM amount 256 MB 48 GB
Chip lithography 80 nm 5 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 30 Watt 300 Watt

8500 GT has 900% lower power consumption.

RTX 6000 Ada Generation, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 15 years, a 19100% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 1500% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between GeForce 8500 GT and RTX 6000 Ada Generation. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that GeForce 8500 GT is a desktop card while RTX 6000 Ada Generation is a workstation one.


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