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| Recommended System Requirements | ||
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| Game | GeForce 8500 GT Inno3D 1GB Edition | Intel G43 Express Chipset |
| Cyberpunk 2077 | 3129% | 5550% |
| Assassins Creed: Valhalla | 2853% | 5068% |
| Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War | 2757% | 4900% |
| Grand Theft Auto VI | 4443% | 7850% |
| FIFA 21 | 1529% | 2750% |
| Genshin Impact | 3129% | 5550% |
| Far Cry 6 | 4571% | 8075% |
| Hitman 3 | 4100% | 7250% |
| Watch Dogs Legion | 3014% | 5350% |
| World of Warcraft: Shadowlands | 4529% | 8000% |
In terms of overall gaming performance, the graphical capabilities of the Nvidia GeForce 8500 GT Inno3D 1GB Edition are significantly better than the Intel G43 Express Chipset.
The G43 Express Chipset was released over a year more recently than the 8500 GT, and so the G43 Express Chipset is likely to have better driver support, meaning it will be more optimized for running the latest games when compared to the 8500 GT.
Both GPUs exhibit very poor performance, so rather than upgrading from one to the other you should consider looking at more powerful GPUs. Neither of these will be able to run the latest games in any playable way.
The 8500 GT has 1024 MB video memory, but the G43 Express Chipset does not have an entry, so the two GPUs cannot be reliably compared in this area.
The 8500 GT has 16 Shader Processing Units but the G43 Express Chipset does not have an entry, so the two GPUs cannot be reliably compared in this area.
The GeForce 8500 GT Inno3D 1GB Edition requires 30 Watts to run and the G43 Express Chipset requires 24 Watts. We would recommend a PSU with at least 350 Watts for the 8500 GT. The 8500 GT requires 6 Watts more than the G43 Express Chipset to run. The difference is not significant enough for the 8500 GT to have a noticeably larger impact on your yearly electricity bills than the G43 Express Chipset.
| Core Speed | 460 MHz | vs |  | 800 MHz | |
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| Boost Clock | - | vs | - | ||
| Architecture | Tesla G86 | Eaglelake | |||
| OC Potential | Fair |
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| Driver Support | Poor |
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| Release Date | 01 May 2007 | vs | | 01 Aug 2008 | |
| GPU Link | GD Link | GD Link | |||
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| Comparison | |||||
| 1366x768 | - | |
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| 1600x900 | 2.1
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| 1920x1080 | 1.4
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| 2560x1440 | 1
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vs | - | |
| 3840x2160 | 0.5
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| Memory | 1024 MB | | vs | N/A | |
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| Memory Speed | 400 MHz | | vs | - | |
| Memory Bus | 128 Bit | | vs | - | |
| Memory Type | DDR2 | vs | | DDR3 | |
| Memory Bandwidth | 12.8GB/sec | | vs | - | |
| L2 Cache | 0 KB | |
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| Delta Color Compression | no | vs | no | ||
| Memory Performance | 0% | |
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0% |
| Comparison | |||||
| Shader Processing Units | 16 | | vs | - | |
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| Actual Shader Performance | 1% | | vs | - | |
| Technology | 80nm | | vs | - | |
| Texture Mapping Units | 8 | | vs | - | |
| Texture Rate | 3.7 GTexel/s | | vs | - | |
| Render Output Units | 4 | | vs | - | |
| Pixel Rate | 1.8 GPixel/s | | vs | - | |
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| Max Digital Resolution (WxH) | 2560x1600 | | vs | - | |
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| VGA Connections | 0 | vs | | 1 | |
| DVI Connections | 1 | | vs | 0 | |
| HDMI Connections | 0 | vs | 0 | ||
| DisplayPort Connections | - | vs | - | ||
| Comparison | |||||
| Max Power | 30 Watts | vs | | 24 Watts | |
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| Recommended PSU | 350 Watts & 22 Amps | - | |||
| DirectX | 10.0 | | vs | | 10 |
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| Shader Model | 4.0 | | vs | | 4.0 |
| Open GL | 3.3 | | vs | 2.1 | |
| Open CL | - | vs | - | ||
| Notebook GPU | no | no | |||
| SLI/Crossfire | yes | | vs | no | |
| Dedicated | yes | | vs | no | |
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| Recommended Processor | Intel Core 2 Duo E4400 2.0GHz | - | |||
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| Recommended RAM | 3 GB | - | |||
| Maximum Recommended Gaming Resolution | 1024x768 | | - | ||
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| Mini Review | GeForce 8500 GT Inno3D 1GB Edition is a special edition of the middle-class GeForce 8500 GT. See the page of the standard version for more information. The new features include a small OC on the core-clock that went from 450MHz to 460MHz. The video memory size was increased to 1GB but that may prove useless, since high video memory usages results from gaming at extreme resolutions and using techniques like AA, MSAA. Due to its architecture limitations (in the core G86) GeForce 8500 GT Inno3D 1GB Edition is not powerful enough to process that much information. The performance boost is very reduced and so Very Demanding games will require very reduced settings while modern, demanding games will run fluently from low to medium settings. | Intel G43 Express Chipset comes embedded on the Core 2 Quad/Core 2 Duo CPUS and features an Integrated GPU called Intel GMA X4500. Due to its characteristics (e.g. Shared Memory) the performance is very limited but might be enough to play today's games at low settings excluding, however, very demanding games like Metro 2033 or The Witcher II, that are unplayable, even at the lowest settings. | |||
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| Recommended CPU | - | ||||
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| Possible GPU Upgrades | - | ||||
| GPU Variants | - | - | |||