AMD FirePro W8000 vs NVIDIA GeForce 8500 GT

VS

AMD FirePro W8000

NVIDIA GeForce 8500 GT

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM FirePro W8000 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 W8000 's Advantages

Released 5 years and 2 months late

More VRAM (4GB vs 256GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (176.0GB/s vs 12.80GB/s)

1776 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce 8500 GT 's Advantages

Lower TDP (30W vs 225W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

FirePro W8000 +11024%

3.226 TFLOPS

GeForce 8500 GT

0.029 TFLOPS

FirePro W8000

VS

GeForce 8500 GT

Graphics Card

Jun 2012

Release Date

Apr 2007

FirePro

Generation

GeForce 8

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 1.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

1375 MHz

Memory Clock

400 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

256MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

176.0GB/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

28.80 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

1.836 GPixel/s

100.8 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

3.672 GTexel/s

-

3.226 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

29.38 GFLOPS

806.4 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

225W

TDP

30W

550 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

4x DisplayPort 1.2 1x SDI

Outputs

1x DVI 1x VGA 1x S-Video

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Tahiti

GPU Name

G86

Tahiti PRO GL

GPU Variant

G86-300-A2

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Tesla

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

80 nm

4.313 billion

Transistors

0.21 billion

352 mm²

Die Size

127 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

11.1 (10_0)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3

1.2

OpenCL

1.1

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

1.1

5.1

Shader Model

4.0

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