Zotac GeForce 8500 GT

Introduction

Zotac is a new player in the video card business. They are manufacturing only NVIDIA video cards and were established early this year. However, they have great potential because they are affiliated with PC Partner who are supply cards to Sapphire for example too.

The GeForce 8500 GT is based on NVIDIA's new G86 graphics processor, which is the new low-end product. Unlike NVIDIA, Zotac chose to clock the GPU at 700 MHz instead of NVIDIA's original 450 MHz reference design.

Here are all the specs at a glance, for further reference see our NVIDIA GeForce 8500 & 8600 article.

	7300 GT	7600 GS	8500 GT	Zotac 8500 GT	8600 GT	8600 GTS
Pixel Shaders	8	12	16	16	32	32
Vertex Pipes	4	5
ROPs	8	8	4	4	8	8
GPU	G73	G73	G86	G86	G84	G84
Transistors	177 M	177 M	210 M	210 M	289 M	289 M
Memory Size	256 MB	256 MB	256 MB	256 MB	256 MB	256/512 MB
Memory Bus Width	128 bit	128 bit	128 bit	128 bit	128 bit	128 bit
Core Clock	500 MHz	400 MHz	450 MHz	700 MHz	540 MHz	675 MHz
Memory Clock	700 MHz	800 MHz	400 MHz	400 MHz	700 MHz	1000 MHz

Complete Specifications

Graphics Technology

• Nvidia Geforce 8500GT at 460 MHz engine clock
• 400 MHz RamDAC Technology Max. Resolution at 2560 x 1600

Memory

• Onboard 128/256MB GDDR2
• 800MHz memory clock
• 128-bit memory bus width

Bus Support

• PCI Express x 16 support

3D Acceleration

• Unified Shader Model 4.0
• Microsoft DX10 support

External Connectors

• DVI-I Connector
• 15-pin VGA Connector
• TV-Out (S-video) Connector

Others

• PureVideo HD
• HDTV Ready
• Vista Ready
• SLI Ready
• HDCP Ready (SKU#: ZT-85TE25H-FSL only)
• Dual Link Dual DVI
• RoHS Compliant