GeForce 8500 GT vs Radeon R9 Nano
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 256MB VRAM GeForce 8500 GT and 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 Nano 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 175W)
Radeon R9 Nano 's Advantages
Released 8 years and 4 months late
More VRAM (4GB vs 256GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (512.0GB/s vs 12.80GB/s)
4080 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce 8500 GT
29
Radeon R9 Nano
+28148%
8192
Graphics Card
Apr 2007
Release Date
Aug 2015
GeForce 8
Generation
Pirate Islands
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 1.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
400 MHz
Memory Clock
500 MHz
Memory
256MB
Memory Size
4GB
GDDR3
Memory Type
HBM
128bit
Memory Bus
4096bit
12.80GB/s
Bandwidth
512.0GB/s
Render Config
-
Compute Units
64
2
SM Count
-
16
Shading Units
4096
8
TMUs
256
4
ROPs
64
-
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
32 KB
L2 Cache
2 MB
Theoretical Performance
1.836 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
64.00 GPixel/s
3.672 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
256.0 GTexel/s
-
FP16 (half)
8.192 TFLOPS
29.38 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
8.192 TFLOPS
-
FP64 (double)
512.0 GFLOPS
Board Design
30W
TDP
175W
200 W
Suggested PSU
450 W
1x DVI
1x VGA
1x S-Video
Outputs
1x HDMI 1.4a
3x DisplayPort 1.2
None
Power Connectors
1x 8-pin
Graphics Processor
G86
GPU Name
Fiji
G86-300-A2
GPU Variant
Fiji XT CA
(215-0862120)
Tesla
Architecture
GCN 3.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
80 nm
Process Size
28 nm
0.21 billion
Transistors
8.9 billion
127 mm²
Die Size
596 mm²
Graphics Features
11.1 (10_0)
DirectX
12 (12_0)
3.3
OpenGL
4.6
1.1
OpenCL
2.0
N/A
Vulkan
1.2
1.1
CUDA
-
4.0
Shader Model
6.3