AMD FirePro RG220A vs NVIDIA GeForce 8500 GT

VS

AMD FirePro RG220A NVIDIA GeForce 8500 GT

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM FirePro RG220A and 256MB VRAM GeForce 8500 GT to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD FirePro RG220A 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 1 months late

More VRAM (512GB vs 256GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (51.20GB/s vs 12.80GB/s)

64 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce 8500 GT 's Advantages

Lower TDP (30W vs 35W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

FirePro RG220A +175%

0.08 TFLOPS

GeForce 8500 GT

0.029 TFLOPS

FirePro RG220A

VS

GeForce 8500 GT

Graphics Card

May 2010

Release Date

Apr 2007

FirePro Remote

Generation

GeForce 8

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 1.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

800 MHz

Memory Clock

400 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

256MB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

51.20GB/s

Bandwidth

12.80GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

2

1

Compute Units

-

80

Shading Units

16

8

TMUs

8

4

ROPs

4

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

L1 Cache

-

L2 Cache

32 KB

Theoretical Performance

2.000 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

1.836 GPixel/s

4.000 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

3.672 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

80.00 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

29.38 GFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

M93

GPU Name

G86

-

GPU Variant

G86-300-A2

TeraScale

Architecture

Tesla

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

55 nm

Process Size

80 nm

0.242 billion

Transistors

0.21 billion

73 mm²

Die Size

127 mm²

Board Design

35W

TDP

30W

200 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

1x DVI

Outputs

1x DVI 1x VGA 1x S-Video

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

10.1 (10_1)

DirectX

11.1 (10_0)

3.3

OpenGL

3.3

1.1

OpenCL

1.1

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

1.1

4.1

Shader Model

4.0

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