GeForce 8500 GT vs FirePro V5800
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 256MB VRAM GeForce 8500 GT and 1024MB VRAM FirePro V5800 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
GeForce 8500 GT 's Advantages
Lower TDP (30W vs 74W)
FirePro V5800 's Advantages
Released 3 years late
More VRAM (1024GB vs 256GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (64.00GB/s vs 12.80GB/s)
784 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce 8500 GT
29
FirePro V5800
+3706%
1104
Graphics Card
Apr 2007
Release Date
Apr 2010
GeForce 8
Generation
FirePro
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 1.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
400 MHz
Memory Clock
1000 MHz
Memory
256MB
Memory Size
1024MB
GDDR3
Memory Type
GDDR5
128bit
Memory Bus
128bit
12.80GB/s
Bandwidth
64.00GB/s
Render Config
-
Compute Units
10
2
SM Count
-
16
Shading Units
800
8
TMUs
40
4
ROPs
16
-
L1 Cache
8 KB (per CU)
32 KB
L2 Cache
256 KB
Theoretical Performance
1.836 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
11.04 GPixel/s
3.672 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
27.60 GTexel/s
29.38 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
1104 GFLOPS
Board Design
30W
TDP
74W
200 W
Suggested PSU
250 W
1x DVI
1x VGA
1x S-Video
Outputs
1x DVI
2x DisplayPort 1.1
None
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
G86
GPU Name
Juniper
G86-300-A2
GPU Variant
Juniper XT GL
Tesla
Architecture
TeraScale 2
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
80 nm
Process Size
40 nm
0.21 billion
Transistors
1.04 billion
127 mm²
Die Size
166 mm²
Graphics Features
11.1 (10_0)
DirectX
11.2 (11_0)
3.3
OpenGL
4.4
1.1
OpenCL
1.2
N/A
Vulkan
N/A
1.1
CUDA
-
4.0
Shader Model
5.0