NVIDIA GeForce 8500 GT vs AMD FirePro D700

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We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 256MB VRAM GeForce 8500 GT and 6GB VRAM FirePro D700 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce 8500 GT 's Advantages

Lower TDP (30W vs 274W)

AMD FirePro D700 's Advantages

Released 6 years and 9 months late

Larger VRAM bandwidth (263.0GB/s vs 12.80GB/s)

2032 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce 8500 GT

0.029 TFLOPS

FirePro D700 +11906%

3.482 TFLOPS

GeForce 8500 GT

VS

FirePro D700

Graphics Card

Apr 2007

Release Date

Jan 2014

GeForce 8

Generation

FirePro

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 1.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

400 MHz

Memory Clock

1370 MHz

Memory

256MB

Memory Size

6GB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

384bit

12.80GB/s

Bandwidth

263.0GB/s

Render Config

2

SM Count

-

Compute Units

32

16

Shading Units

2048

8

TMUs

128

4

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

32 KB

L2 Cache

768 KB

Theoretical Performance

1.836 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

27.20 GPixel/s

3.672 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

108.8 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

29.38 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

3.482 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

870.4 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

G86

GPU Name

Tahiti

G86-300-A2

GPU Variant

Tahiti XT GL

Tesla

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

80 nm

Process Size

28 nm

0.21 billion

Transistors

4.313 billion

127 mm²

Die Size

352 mm²

Board Design

30W

TDP

274W

200 W

Suggested PSU

600 W

1x DVI 1x VGA 1x S-Video

Outputs

6x mini-DisplayPort 1.2 1x SDI

None

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Features

11.1 (10_0)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

3.3

OpenGL

4.6

1.1

OpenCL

1.2

N/A

Vulkan

1.2

1.1

CUDA

-

4.0

Shader Model

5.1

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