NVIDIA GeForce 8500 GT vs ATI FirePro V8700 Duo

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NVIDIA GeForce 8500 GT ATI FirePro V8700 Duo

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 256MB VRAM GeForce 8500 GT and 1024MB VRAM FirePro V8700 Duo 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 151W)

ATI FirePro V8700 Duo 's Advantages

More VRAM (1024GB vs 256GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (108.8GB/s vs 12.80GB/s)

784 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce 8500 GT

0.029 TFLOPS

FirePro V8700 Duo +4037%

1.2 TFLOPS

GeForce 8500 GT

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FirePro V8700 Duo

Graphics Card

Apr 2007

Release Date

Unknown

GeForce 8

Generation

FirePro

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 1.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

400 MHz

Memory Clock

850 MHz

Memory

256MB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

12.80GB/s

Bandwidth

108.8GB/s

Render Config

2

SM Count

-

Compute Units

10

16

Shading Units

800

8

TMUs

40

4

ROPs

16

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

32 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

Theoretical Performance

1.836 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

12.00 GPixel/s

3.672 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

30.00 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

29.38 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1200 GFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

G86

GPU Name

RV770

G86-300-A2

GPU Variant

RV770 XT (215-0669049)

Tesla

Architecture

TeraScale

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

80 nm

Process Size

55 nm

0.21 billion

Transistors

0.956 billion

127 mm²

Die Size

256 mm²

Board Design

30W

TDP

151W

200 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

1x DVI 1x VGA 1x S-Video

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Features

11.1 (10_0)

DirectX

10.1 (10_1)

3.3

OpenGL

3.3

1.1

OpenCL

1.1

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

1.1

CUDA

-

4.0

Shader Model

4.1

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