AMD FirePro W7100 vs NVIDIA GeForce 8500 GT

VS

AMD FirePro W7100

NVIDIA GeForce 8500 GT

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM FirePro W7100 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 W7100 's Advantages

Released 7 years and 4 months late

More VRAM (8GB vs 256GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (160.0GB/s vs 12.80GB/s)

1776 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce 8500 GT 's Advantages

Lower TDP (30W vs 150W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

FirePro W7100 +11268%

3.297 TFLOPS

GeForce 8500 GT

0.029 TFLOPS

FirePro W7100

VS

GeForce 8500 GT

Graphics Card

Aug 2014

Release Date

Apr 2007

FirePro

Generation

GeForce 8

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 1.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

1250 MHz

Memory Clock

400 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

256MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

160.0GB/s

Bandwidth

12.80GB/s

Render Config

28

Compute Units

-

SM Count

2

1792

Shading Units

16

112

TMUs

8

32

ROPs

4

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

512 KB

L2 Cache

32 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

29.44 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

1.836 GPixel/s

103.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

3.672 GTexel/s

3.297 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

3.297 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

29.38 GFLOPS

206.1 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

150W

TDP

30W

450 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

4x DisplayPort 1.2

Outputs

1x DVI 1x VGA 1x S-Video

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Tonga

GPU Name

G86

Tonga PRO GL

GPU Variant

G86-300-A2

GCN 3.0

Architecture

Tesla

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

80 nm

5 billion

Transistors

0.21 billion

366 mm²

Die Size

127 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

11.1 (10_0)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3

2.0

OpenCL

1.1

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

1.1

6.3

Shader Model

4.0

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