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Spec GeForce 8500 GT
Overview
Product name NVIDIA GeForce 8500 GT
Architecture Tesla
Generation / family GeForce 8 Series
GPU codename G86
Launch date 2007-04-17
Market segment Desktop in GeForce 8 Series
Board type / entry type Reference GPU
GPU
Process node TSMC 80 nm
Die size 127 mm²
Transistor count 0.21 billion
GPU chip G86
SM / multiprocessor count 2
CUDA Cores 16
ROPs 4
TMUs 8
Clocks
Base / Core clock 459 MHz
Boost clock 459 MHz
Memory clock 400 MHz
Memory
Memory size 256 MB
Memory type GDDR3
Memory bus width 128-bit
Memory bandwidth 12.8 GB/s
Bus / Interface
Bus interface PCIe 1.0 x16
AGP / PCI / PCIe distinction PCIe
Power
TDP / TBP / board power 30 W
Recommended PSU 200 W
Power connectors None
Slot width Single-slot, 229 mm length
Display / Media
Display outputs 1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
Features
DirectX support DirectX 10.0
OpenGL support OpenGL 3.3
CUDA support 1.1
Shader Model 4.0
Performance / Benchmarks
FP32 throughput 0.03 TFLOPS

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