NVIDIA GeForce 8500 GT vs ATI Radeon HD 2950 PRO

VS

NVIDIA GeForce 8500 GT ATI Radeon HD 2950 PRO

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 256MB VRAM GeForce 8500 GT and 256MB VRAM Radeon HD 2950 PRO 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 75W)

ATI Radeon HD 2950 PRO 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (38.40GB/s vs 12.80GB/s)

304 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce 8500 GT

0.029 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 2950 PRO +1224%

0.384 TFLOPS

GeForce 8500 GT

VS

Radeon HD 2950 PRO

Graphics Card

Apr 2007

Release Date

Unknown

GeForce 8

Generation

Radeon R600

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 1.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

400 MHz

Memory Clock

600 MHz

Memory

256MB

Memory Size

256MB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR3

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

12.80GB/s

Bandwidth

38.40GB/s

Render Config

2

SM Count

-

Compute Units

4

16

Shading Units

320

8

TMUs

16

4

ROPs

16

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

L1 Cache

-

32 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

Theoretical Performance

1.836 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

9.600 GPixel/s

3.672 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

9.600 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

29.38 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

384.0 GFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

76.80 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

G86

GPU Name

RV670

G86-300-A2

GPU Variant

RV670 PRO ES (215-0708001)

Tesla

Architecture

TeraScale

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

80 nm

Process Size

55 nm

0.21 billion

Transistors

0.666 billion

127 mm²

Die Size

192 mm²

Board Design

30W

TDP

75W

200 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

1x DVI 1x VGA 1x S-Video

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

None

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Features

11.1 (10_0)

DirectX

10.1 (10_1)

3.3

OpenGL

3.3 (full) 4.0 (partial)

1.1

OpenCL

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

1.1

CUDA

-

4.0

Shader Model

4.1

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