GeForce 8500 GT vs GeForce GT 1030

Intro

Compare those specs to the GeForce GT 1030, which has core clock speeds of 1265 MHz on the GPU, and 1502 MHz on the 2048 MB of GDDR5 RAM. It features 384 SPUs along with 32 Texture Address Units and 16 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GT 1030		30 Watts
GeForce 8500 GT		45 Watts
	Difference: 15 Watts (50%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the GeForce GT 1030 should be much faster than the GeForce 8500 GT in general. (explain)

GeForce GT 1030		49152 MB/sec
GeForce 8500 GT		12800 MB/sec
	Difference: 36352 (284%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GT 1030 is much (more or less 1024%) more effective at anisotropic filtering than the GeForce 8500 GT. (explain)

GeForce GT 1030		40480 Mtexels/sec
GeForce 8500 GT		3600 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 36880 (1024%)

Pixel Rate

If running with a high screen resolution is important to you, then the GeForce GT 1030 is the winner, by a large margin. (explain)

GeForce GT 1030		20240 Mpixels/sec
GeForce 8500 GT		1800 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 18440 (1024%)

Please note that the above 'benchmarks' are all just theoretical - the results were calculated based on the card's specifications, and real-world performance may (and probably will) vary at least a bit.

Price Comparison

Specifications

Memory Bandwidth: Bandwidth is the largest amount of data (measured in megabytes per second) that can be transported past the external memory interface within a second. It is calculated by multiplying the card's interface width by its memory clock speed. If the card has DDR memory, it should be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the memory bandwidth, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, High Dynamic Range and higher screen resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum number of texture map elements (texels) that can be processed in one second. This number is worked out by multiplying the total amount of texture units by the core speed of the chip. The better this number, the better the card will be at texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels applied in one second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels that the graphics chip can possibly record to its local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is calculated by multiplying the number of Raster Operations Pipelines by the the card's clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - sometimes also referred to as Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel fill rate is also dependant on quite a few other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the max fill rate.