NVIDIA GeForce 8500 GT vs ATI Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6

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NVIDIA GeForce 8500 GT ATI Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 256MB VRAM GeForce 8500 GT and 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6 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 228W)

ATI Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 11 months late

Larger VRAM bandwidth (153.6GB/s vs 12.80GB/s)

1584 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce 8500 GT

0.029 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6 +9279%

2.72 TFLOPS

GeForce 8500 GT

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Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6

Graphics Card

Apr 2007

Release Date

Mar 2010

GeForce 8

Generation

Evergreen

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 1.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

400 MHz

Memory Clock

1200 MHz

Memory

256MB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

12.80GB/s

Bandwidth

153.6GB/s

Render Config

2

SM Count

-

Compute Units

20

16

Shading Units

1600

8

TMUs

80

4

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

32 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

Theoretical Performance

1.836 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

27.20 GPixel/s

3.672 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

68.00 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

29.38 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.720 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

544.0 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

G86

GPU Name

Cypress

G86-300-A2

GPU Variant

Cypress XT (215-0735033)

Tesla

Architecture

TeraScale 2

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

80 nm

Process Size

40 nm

0.21 billion

Transistors

2.154 billion

127 mm²

Die Size

334 mm²

Board Design

30W

TDP

228W

200 W

Suggested PSU

550 W

1x DVI 1x VGA 1x S-Video

Outputs

6x mini-DisplayPort 1.1

None

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Features

11.1 (10_0)

DirectX

11.2 (11_0)

3.3

OpenGL

4.4

1.1

OpenCL

1.2

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

1.1

CUDA

-

4.0

Shader Model

5.0

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