NVIDIA GeForce 8500 GT vs AMD Radeon HD 6350

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NVIDIA GeForce 8500 GT AMD Radeon HD 6350

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 256MB VRAM GeForce 8500 GT and 512MB VRAM Radeon HD 6350 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce 8500 GT 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (12.80GB/s vs 6.400GB/s)

AMD Radeon HD 6350 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 10 months late

More VRAM (512GB vs 256GB)

64 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (19W vs 30W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce 8500 GT

0.029 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6350 +258%

0.104 TFLOPS

GeForce 8500 GT

VS

Radeon HD 6350

Graphics Card

Apr 2007

Release Date

Feb 2011

GeForce 8

Generation

Northern Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 1.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

400 MHz

Memory Clock

400 MHz

Memory

256MB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR3

128bit

Memory Bus

64bit

12.80GB/s

Bandwidth

6.400GB/s

Render Config

2

SM Count

-

Compute Units

2

16

Shading Units

80

8

TMUs

8

4

ROPs

4

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

32 KB

L2 Cache

128 KB

Theoretical Performance

1.836 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

2.600 GPixel/s

3.672 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

5.200 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

29.38 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

104.0 GFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

G86

GPU Name

Cedar

G86-300-A2

GPU Variant

Cedar PRO

Tesla

Architecture

TeraScale 2

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

80 nm

Process Size

40 nm

0.21 billion

Transistors

0.292 billion

127 mm²

Die Size

59 mm²

Board Design

30W

TDP

19W

200 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

1x DVI 1x VGA 1x S-Video

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.3a

None

Power Connectors

None

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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