UHD Graphics (Jasper Lake 16 EU) vs GeForce 8500 GT

Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot rated1004
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiencyno data9.61
ArchitectureTesla (2006−2010)Gen. 11 (2021)
GPU code nameG86Gen. 11
Market segmentDesktopLaptop
Release date17 April 2007 (17 years ago)11 January 2021 (3 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 cores1624
Core clock speed459 MHz350 MHz
Boost clock speedno data800 MHz
Number of transistors210 millionno data
Manufacturing process technology80 nm10 nm
Power consumption (TDP)30 Watt4.8 - 10 Watt
Texture fill rate3.672no data
Floating-point processing power0.02938 TFLOPSno data
ROPs4no data
TMUs8no data

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 x16no data
Length229 mmno data
Width1-slotno data
Supplementary power connectorsNoneno 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 typeGDDR3no data
Maximum RAM amount256 MBno data
Standard memory config per GPU256 MBno data
Memory bus width128 Bitno data
Memory clock speed400 MHzno data
Memory bandwidth12.8 GB/sno data
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-Videono data

Supported technologies

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

Quick Syncno data+

API compatibility

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

DirectX11.1 (10_0)12_1
Shader Model4.0no data
OpenGL2.1no data
OpenCL1.1no data
VulkanN/A-
CUDA1.1-

Pros & cons summary


Recency 17 April 2007 11 January 2021
Chip lithography 80 nm 10 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 30 Watt 4 Watt

UHD Graphics (Jasper Lake 16 EU) has an age advantage of 13 years, a 700% more advanced lithography process, and 650% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between GeForce 8500 GT and UHD Graphics (Jasper Lake 16 EU). We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that GeForce 8500 GT is a desktop card while UHD Graphics (Jasper Lake 16 EU) is a notebook one.


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