GeForce 8500 GT vs Radeon HD 6250
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 256MB VRAM GeForce 8500 GT and 512MB VRAM Radeon HD 6250 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
GeForce 8500 GT 's Advantages
Larger VRAM bandwidth (12.80GB/s vs 8.000GB/s)
Radeon HD 6250 's Advantages
Released 3 years and 9 months late
More VRAM (512GB vs 256GB)
64 additional rendering cores
Lower TDP (19W vs 30W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce 8500 GT
29
Radeon HD 6250
+258%
104
Graphics Card
Apr 2007
Release Date
Jan 2011
GeForce 8
Generation
Northern Islands
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 1.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
400 MHz
Memory Clock
500 MHz
Memory
256MB
Memory Size
512MB
GDDR3
Memory Type
GDDR3
128bit
Memory Bus
64bit
12.80GB/s
Bandwidth
8.000GB/s
Render Config
-
Compute Units
2
2
SM Count
-
16
Shading Units
80
8
TMUs
8
4
ROPs
4
-
L1 Cache
8 KB (per CU)
32 KB
L2 Cache
128 KB
Theoretical Performance
1.836 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
2.600 GPixel/s
3.672 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
5.200 GTexel/s
29.38 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
104.0 GFLOPS
Board Design
30W
TDP
19W
200 W
Suggested PSU
200 W
1x DVI
1x VGA
1x S-Video
Outputs
1x DVI
1x HDMI 1.3a
None
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
G86
GPU Name
Cedar
G86-300-A2
GPU Variant
Cedar PRO
Tesla
Architecture
TeraScale 2
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
80 nm
Process Size
40 nm
0.21 billion
Transistors
0.292 billion
127 mm²
Die Size
59 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