NVIDIA GeForce 8500 GT vs NVIDIA GeForce Go 6800 Ultra

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Graphics Processor

GPU model G86 NV41
GPU variant G86-300-A2 GO6800 U
Architecture Tesla Curie
Foundry TSMC TSMC
Manufacturing process 80 nm 130 nm
Number of transistors 210 million 222 million
Die size 127 mm² 225 mm²

Graphics Card

Release date Apr 17th, 2007
Generation GeForce 8
Production End-of-life
Launch price 129 USD
Interface PCIe 1.0 x16
Reviews 33 in our database
Predecessor GeForce 7 PCIe
Successor GeForce 9

Clocks

GPU clock 459 MHz 450 MHz
Shader clock 918 MHz
Memory clock 400 MHz 800 Mbps effective 600 MHz 1200 Mbps effective

Memory Configuration

Memory size 256 MB 256 MB
Memory type GDDR3 GDDR3
Memory bus width 128 bit 256 bit
Bandwidth 12.80 GB/s 38.40 GB/s

Render Configuration

Shading units 16
TMUs 8 12
ROPs 4 12
SM count 2
Cache L2 32 KB
Pixel shaders 12
Vertex shaders 5

Performance

Pixel rate 1.836 GPixel/s 5.400 GPixel/s
Texture rate 3.672 GTexel/s 5.400 GTexel/s
FP32 (float) performance 29.38 GFLOPS
Vertex rate 562.5 MVertices/s

Dimensions & Outputs

Slot width Single-slot
Length 229 mm 9 inches
TDP 30 W 89 W
Suggested PSU 200 W
Outputs 1x DVI1x VGA1x S-Video No outputs
Power connectors None None
Board number P403 P314

API Support & Features

DirectX 11.1 (10_0) 9.0c (9_3)
OpenGL 3.3 2.1 (full) 3.0 (partial)
OpenCL 1.1
Vulkan
CUDA 1.1
Shader model 4.0 3.0

Other Features

Mobile graphics

Release date Feb 24th, 2005
Generation GeForce Go 6 (Go 6000)
Production End-of-life
Interface PCIe 1.0 x16
Predecessor GeForce FX Go 5
Successor GeForce Go 7

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