GeForce 8500 GT vs Radeon R5 430 OEM
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 256MB VRAM GeForce 8500 GT and 2GB VRAM Radeon R5 430 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 50W)
Radeon R5 430 OEM 's Advantages
Released 9 years and 2 months late
Boost Clock780MHz
More VRAM (2GB vs 256GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (36.80GB/s vs 12.80GB/s)
368 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce 8500 GT
29
Radeon R5 430 OEM
+1965%
599
Graphics Card
Apr 2007
Release Date
Jun 2016
GeForce 8
Generation
Arctic Islands
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 1.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x8
Clock Speeds
-
Base Clock
730 MHz
-
Boost Clock
780 MHz
400 MHz
Memory Clock
1150 MHz
Memory
256MB
Memory Size
2GB
GDDR3
Memory Type
GDDR5
128bit
Memory Bus
64bit
12.80GB/s
Bandwidth
36.80GB/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
6.240 GPixel/s
3.672 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
18.72 GTexel/s
29.38 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
599.0 GFLOPS
-
FP64 (double)
37.44 GFLOPS
Board Design
30W
TDP
50W
200 W
Suggested PSU
250 W
1x DVI
1x VGA
1x S-Video
Outputs
1x DVI
1x DisplayPort 1.2
None
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
G86
GPU Name
Oland
G86-300-A2
GPU Variant
-
Tesla
Architecture
GCN 1.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
80 nm
Process Size
28 nm
0.21 billion
Transistors
0.95 billion
127 mm²
Die Size
77 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
