Radeon RX 6800 vs GeForce 8500 GT
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 16GB VRAM Radeon RX 6800 and 256MB VRAM GeForce 8500 GT to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
Radeon RX 6800 's Advantages
Released 13 years and 6 months late
Boost Clock2105MHz
More VRAM (16GB vs 256GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (512.0GB/s vs 12.80GB/s)
3824 additional rendering cores
GeForce 8500 GT 's Advantages
Lower TDP (30W vs 250W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Radeon RX 6800
+55658%
16170
GeForce 8500 GT
29
Graphics Card
Oct 2020
Release Date
Apr 2007
Navi II
Generation
GeForce 8
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 4.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 1.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1700 MHz
Base Clock
-
2105 MHz
Boost Clock
-
2000 MHz
Memory Clock
400 MHz
Memory
16GB
Memory Size
256MB
GDDR6
Memory Type
GDDR3
256bit
Memory Bus
128bit
512.0GB/s
Bandwidth
12.80GB/s
Render Config
60
Compute Units
-
-
SM Count
2
3840
Shading Units
16
240
TMUs
8
96
ROPs
4
60
RT Cores
-
128 KB per Array
L1 Cache
-
4 MB
L2 Cache
32 KB
128 MB
L3 Cache
-
Theoretical Performance
202.1 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
1.836 GPixel/s
505.2 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
3.672 GTexel/s
32.33 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
-
16.17 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
29.38 GFLOPS
1010 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
-
Board Design
250W
TDP
30W
600 W
Suggested PSU
200 W
1x HDMI 2.1
2x DisplayPort 1.4a
1x USB Type-C
Outputs
1x DVI
1x VGA
1x S-Video
2x 8-pin
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
Navi 21
GPU Name
G86
Navi 21 XL
(215-121000187)
GPU Variant
G86-300-A2
RDNA 2.0
Architecture
Tesla
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
7 nm
Process Size
80 nm
26.8 billion
Transistors
0.21 billion
520 mm²
Die Size
127 mm²
Graphics Features
12 Ultimate (12_2)
DirectX
11.1 (10_0)
4.6
OpenGL
3.3
2.1
OpenCL
1.1
1.3
Vulkan
N/A
-
CUDA
1.1
6.5
Shader Model
4.0