This is a comprehensive analysis comparing the NVIDIA GeForce 7300 GT AGP on one side and NVIDIA GeForce 8500 GT on the other side.
The first video card was released on May 15th, 2006. This GPU is equipped with 128 MB of DDR2 memory, with a bandwidth of 10.40 GB/s. The architecture of this card: base clock of and a boost clock of , TDP of this video card is 24 W.
The second video card was released on Apr 17th, 2007 and comes with 256 MB of GDDR3 memory, with a bandwidth of 12.80 GB/s. This GPU also has a base clock of and a boost clock of , and it has a TDP of 30 W.
This table also comprises board specifications, pixel and texture filtration, launch price, and benchmarks such as G3DMark, PassMark G2D, 3DMark Firestrike, FPS, and Hashrate.
 NVIDIA GeForce 7300 GT AGP |
NVIDIA GeForce 8500 GT |
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|---|---|---|
| Graphics Processor | ||
| GPU Name: | NVIDIA GeForce 7300 GT AGP | NVIDIA GeForce 8500 GT |
| GPU Variant: | G73-VZ-N-B1 | G86-300-A2 |
| Processor: | Curie | Tesla |
| Foundry: | TSMC | TSMC |
| Technology: | 90 nm | 80 nm |
| Transistors: | 177 million | 210 million |
| Die Size: | 125 mm² | 127 mm² |
| General information | ||
| Release Date: | May 15th, 2006 | Apr 17th, 2007 |
| Availability: | - | - |
| Generation: | GeForce 7 AGP (7300) | GeForce 8 (8500) |
| Predecessor: | GeForce 6 AGP | GeForce 7 PCIe |
| Successor: | GeForce 8 | GeForce 9 |
| Production: | End-of-life | End-of-life |
| Launch Price: | - | 129 USD |
| Current Price: | - | - |
| Bus Interface: | AGP 8x | PCIe 1.0 x16 |
| Reviews: | 42 in our database | 33 in our database |
| Clock Speeds | ||
| Base Clock Speed: | - | - |
| Boost Clock Speed: | - | - |
| SOC clock: | - | - |
| UVD clock: | - | - |
| Memory Clock: | 325 MHz 650 Mbps effective | 400 MHz 800 Mbps effective |
| Memory specs | ||
| RAM: | 128 MB | 256 MB |
| Type of memory: | DDR2 | GDDR3 |
| Memory Bus: | 128 bit | 128 bit |
| Memory Bandwidth: | 10.40 GB/s | 12.80 GB/s |
| Render Config | ||
| Shading Units: | - | 16 |
| TMUs: | 8 | 8 |
| ROPs: | 8 | 4 |
| Compute units: | - | - |
| Tensor Cores: | - | - |
| RT Cores: | - | - |
| L0 Cache: | - | - |
| L1 Cache: | - | - |
| L2 Cache: | - | 32 KB |
| L3 Cache: | - | - |
| Theoretical Performance | ||
| Pixel Fillrate: | 2.800 GPixel/s | 1.836 GPixel/s |
| Texture Fillrate: | 2.800 GTexel/s | 3.672 GTexel/s |
| FP32 (float): | - | 29.38 GFLOPS |
| Board specs | ||
| Slot Width: | Single-slot | Single-slot |
| Length: | - | 229 mm 9 inches |
| Width: | - | - |
| Height: | - | - |
| TDP: | 24 W | 30 W |
| Suggested PSU: | 200 W | 200 W |
| Outputs: | 1x DVI1x VGA1x S-Video | 1x DVI1x VGA1x S-Video |
| Power Connectors: | None | None |
| Part Number: | - | - |
| Board Number: | P501 | P403 |
| Technology Support | ||
| DirectX: | 9.0c (9_3) | 11.1 (10_0) |
| OpenGL: | 2.1 | 3.3 |
| OpenCL: | N/A | 1.1 |
| Vulkan: | N/A | N/A |
| CUDA: | - | - |
| Shader Model: | - | - |
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