ATI FirePro V9800 vs NVIDIA GeForce 8500 GT

VS

ATI FirePro V9800

NVIDIA GeForce 8500 GT

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM FirePro V9800 and 256MB VRAM GeForce 8500 GT to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

ATI FirePro V9800 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 5 months late

More VRAM (4GB vs 256GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (147.2GB/s vs 12.80GB/s)

1584 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce 8500 GT 's Advantages

Lower TDP (30W vs 250W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

FirePro V9800 +9279%

2.72 TFLOPS

GeForce 8500 GT

0.029 TFLOPS

FirePro V9800

VS

GeForce 8500 GT

Graphics Card

Sep 2010

Release Date

Apr 2007

FirePro

Generation

GeForce 8

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 1.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

1150 MHz

Memory Clock

400 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

256MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

147.2GB/s

Bandwidth

12.80GB/s

Render Config

20

Compute Units

-

SM Count

2

1600

Shading Units

16

80

TMUs

8

32

ROPs

4

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

512 KB

L2 Cache

32 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

27.20 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

1.836 GPixel/s

68.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

3.672 GTexel/s

-

2.720 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

29.38 GFLOPS

544.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

250W

TDP

30W

600 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

6x mini-DisplayPort 1.1 1x S-Video

Outputs

1x DVI 1x VGA 1x S-Video

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Cypress

GPU Name

G86

Cypress XT GL

GPU Variant

G86-300-A2

TeraScale 2

Architecture

Tesla

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

80 nm

2.154 billion

Transistors

0.21 billion

334 mm²

Die Size

127 mm²

Graphics Features

11.2 (11_0)

DirectX

11.1 (10_0)

4.4

OpenGL

3.3

1.2

OpenCL

1.1

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

1.1

5.0

Shader Model

4.0

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