GeForce 8500 GT vs Radeon HD 8730 OEM
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 256MB VRAM GeForce 8500 GT and 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 8730 OEM 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 47W)
Radeon HD 8730 OEM 's Advantages
Released 6 years and 5 months late
More VRAM (1024GB vs 256GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (72.00GB/s vs 12.80GB/s)
368 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce 8500 GT
29
Radeon HD 8730 OEM
+2017%
614
Graphics Card
Apr 2007
Release Date
Sep 2013
GeForce 8
Generation
Sea Islands
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 1.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
400 MHz
Memory Clock
1125 MHz
Memory
256MB
Memory Size
1024MB
GDDR3
Memory Type
GDDR5
128bit
Memory Bus
128bit
12.80GB/s
Bandwidth
72.00GB/s
Render Config
-
Compute Units
6
2
SM Count
-
16
Shading Units
384
8
TMUs
24
4
ROPs
8
-
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
32 KB
L2 Cache
256 KB
Theoretical Performance
1.836 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
6.400 GPixel/s
3.672 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
19.20 GTexel/s
29.38 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
614.4 GFLOPS
-
FP64 (double)
38.40 GFLOPS
Board Design
30W
TDP
47W
200 W
Suggested PSU
200 W
1x DVI
1x VGA
1x S-Video
Outputs
1x DVI
1x HDMI 1.4a
1x DisplayPort 1.2
None
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
G86
GPU Name
Cape Verde
G86-300-A2
GPU Variant
Cape Verde LE
Tesla
Architecture
GCN 1.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
80 nm
Process Size
28 nm
0.21 billion
Transistors
1.5 billion
127 mm²
Die Size
123 mm²
Graphics Features
11.1 (10_0)
DirectX
12 (11_1)
3.3
OpenGL
4.6
1.1
OpenCL
1.2
N/A
Vulkan
1.2
1.1
CUDA
-
4.0
Shader Model
5.1