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GeForce 8500 GT

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Release date ≤ Q2 2014.

Average Bench: 0.78% (644th of 714)

Based on 4,580 user benchmarks.  Device: 10DE 0421 Model: NVIDIA GeForce 8500 GT
Poor: 1%Average: 0.78% Great: 1%

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Terrible average bench

The Nvidia GeForce 8500 GT averaged 99.2% lower than the peak scores attained by the group leaders. This isn't a great result which indicates that there are much faster alternatives on the comparison list.

Strengths

Avg. Locally-deformable PRT (Bat) 0.73fps
Avg. Render target array GShader (Sphere) 2.38fps

Excellent consistency

The range of scores (95th - 5th percentile) for the Nvidia GeForce 8500 GT is just 0.65%. This is an extremely narrow range which indicates that the Nvidia GeForce 8500 GT performs superbly consistently under varying real world conditions.

Weaknesses

Avg. High dynamic range lighting (Teapot) 1.41fps
Avg. Parallax occlusion mapping (Stones) 0.44fps
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Average Bench

(Based on 4,580 samples)
Rank 6440.78%
Min Avg Max
0.3 Lighting 0.73 1.4
0.3 Reflection 1.41 2.91
0.1 Parallax 0.44 1
0.6% 0.86 fps
Min Avg Max
1.2 MRender 2.38 3.1
0.3 Gravity 0.59 0.91
0.5 Splatting 1.29 1.9
1.1% 1.42 fps
User Benchmarks Bench3D DX93D DX103D DX11
The fastest GPU (mainstream) averages a speed of 100%
Device(107D 2A94) 512MB
Ram: 512MB, Driver: 342.01
0.88% Terrible
Lighting 0.9
Reflection 1
Parallax 0.3
1% 0.73 fps
MRender 2.5
Gravity 0.4
Splatting 1.4
1% 1.43 fps
Asus(1043 8264) 512MB
Ram: 512MB, Driver: 342.01
0.74% Terrible
Lighting 0.7
Reflection 2.5
Parallax 0
1% 1.07 fps
MRender 2.2
Gravity 0.6
Splatting 1.2
1% 1.33 fps
MSI(1462 0960) 256MB
Ram: 256MB, Driver: 341.95
0.63% Terrible
Lighting 0.5
Reflection 0.8
Parallax 0.2
0% 0.5 fps
MRender 2
Gravity 0.9
Splatting 1.1
1% 1.33 fps
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The number of benchmark samples for this model as a percentage of all 67,447,375 GPUs tested

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Hardware Id Samples Bench ± SD Model / Price
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Device(0000 0000) 19% 1% ± 0%
Gigabyte(1458 344C) 10% 1% ± 0%
XFX(1682 230B) 8% 1% ± 0%
Asus(1043 034F) 7% 1% ± 0%
MSI(1462 0960) 7% 1% ± 0%
Asus(1043 8245) 5% 1% ± 0%
Device(107D 2A94) 4% 1% ± 0%
Asus(1043 8264) 4% 1% ± 0%
Asus(1043 050E) 3% 1% ± 0%
Gigabyte(1458 3445) 3% 1% ± 0%
Asus(1043 8256) 2% 1% ± 0%
Nvidia(10DE 047A) 2% 1% ± 0%
XFX(1682 2353) 2% 1% ± 0%
Gainward(10B0 1401) 2% 1% ± 0%
XFX(1682 2317) 1% 1% ± 0%
XFX(1682 230A) 1% 1% ± 0%
Zotac(19DA A012) 1% 1% ± 0%
Asus(1043 829F) 1% 1% ± 0%
Asus(1043 824F) 1% 1% ± 0%
XFX(1682 231F) 1% 1% ± 0%
Asus(1043 8242) 1% 1% ± 0%
XFX(1682 2302) 1% 1% ± 0%
POV(1ACC 0857) 1% 1% ± 0%
Nvidia(10DE 0479) 1% 1% ± 0%
PNY(196E 0480) 1% 1% ± 0%
MSI(1462 0961) 1% 1% ± 0%
XFX(1682 2305) 1% 1% ± 0%
Asus(1043 827E) 1% 1% ± 0%
Nvidia(10DE 047D) 1% 1% ± 0%
Sanyo(144D 8069) 1% 1% ± 0%
Sanyo(144D 8072) 1% 1% ± 0%
Asus(1043 060A) 1% 1% ± 0%
Gigabyte(1458 3443) 0% 1% ± 0%
Asus(1043 8277) 0% 1% ± 0%
Device(105B 0F1A) 0% 1% ± 0%
Nvidia(10DE 0000) 0% 1% ± 0%
Gainward(10B0 0801) 0% 1% ± 0%
Zotac(19DA B012) 0% 1% ± 0%
Elitegroup(1019 1806) 0% 1% ± 0%
EVGA(3842 C742) 0% 1% ± 0%
MSI(1462 0921) 0% 1% ± 0%
XFX(1682 2300) 0% 1% ± 0%
POV(1ACC 845D) 0% 1% ± 0%
BFG(19F1 04D5) 0% 1% ± 0%
EVGA(3842 C793) 0% 1% ± 0%
Sapphire(174B 7012) 0% 1% ± 0%
POV(1ACC 8494) 0% 0% ± 0%
POV(1ACC 848D) 0% 1% ± 0%
POV(1ACC 0848) 0% 1% ± 0%
POV(1ACC 848A) 0% 1% ± 0%
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Workstation 2%
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CPU
Core i7-3770Intel  $297Bench 69%, 278,207 samples2,022x
Core i7-2600Intel  $195Bench 67%, 185,630 samples1,566x
Core i5-3470Intel  $59Bench 63%, 223,595 samples932x
GPU
GeForce 8500 GTNvidiaBench 1%, 4,580 samples1x
SSD
A400 240GBKingston  $28Bench 66%, 424,288 samples821x
Virtual NVMe Disk 64GBVmwareBench 62%, 2,103 samples455x
A400 480GBKingston  $38Bench 74%, 237,487 samples424x
RAM
2x2GBUnknownBench 20%, 446,702 samples516x
4x2GBUnknownBench 25%, 183,252 samples376x
1x8GBUnknownBench 38%, 168,538 samples297x
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SGP-User
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Good

4 years ago.

I have one of that VGA and every game under 2013 run faster in that VGA , the game was i have taste in that VGA is Call Of Duty : Modren Warfare, GTA IV , Just Cause 2 , Need For Speed Most Wanted 2012 , Need For Speed The Run, Much i can't tell one by one. I love that VGA

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Excellent

5 years ago.

First graphics card, laughably bad now

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