GeForce 8500 GT vs Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 256MB VRAM GeForce 8500 GT and 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6 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 228W)
Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6 's Advantages
Released 2 years and 11 months late
More VRAM (2GB vs 256GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (153.6GB/s vs 12.80GB/s)
1584 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce 8500 GT
29
Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6
+9279%
2720
Graphics Card
Apr 2007
Release Date
Mar 2010
GeForce 8
Generation
Evergreen
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 1.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
400 MHz
Memory Clock
1200 MHz
Memory
256MB
Memory Size
2GB
GDDR3
Memory Type
GDDR5
128bit
Memory Bus
256bit
12.80GB/s
Bandwidth
153.6GB/s
Render Config
-
Compute Units
20
2
SM Count
-
16
Shading Units
1600
8
TMUs
80
4
ROPs
32
-
L1 Cache
8 KB (per CU)
32 KB
L2 Cache
512 KB
Theoretical Performance
1.836 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
27.20 GPixel/s
3.672 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
68.00 GTexel/s
29.38 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
2.720 TFLOPS
-
FP64 (double)
544.0 GFLOPS
Board Design
30W
TDP
228W
200 W
Suggested PSU
550 W
1x DVI
1x VGA
1x S-Video
Outputs
6x mini-DisplayPort 1.1
None
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Graphics Processor
G86
GPU Name
Cypress
G86-300-A2
GPU Variant
Cypress XT
(215-0735033)
Tesla
Architecture
TeraScale 2
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
80 nm
Process Size
40 nm
0.21 billion
Transistors
2.154 billion
127 mm²
Die Size
334 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
