NVIDIA GeForce 8500 GT vs AMD Radeon HD 6490

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NVIDIA GeForce 8500 GT AMD Radeon HD 6490

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 256MB VRAM GeForce 8500 GT and 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 6490 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 39W)

AMD Radeon HD 6490 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 3 months late

More VRAM (1024GB vs 256GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (16.00GB/s vs 12.80GB/s)

304 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce 8500 GT

0.029 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6490 +1113%

0.352 TFLOPS

GeForce 8500 GT

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Radeon HD 6490

Graphics Card

Apr 2007

Release Date

Jul 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

500 MHz

Memory

256MB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR3

Memory Type

DDR2

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

12.80GB/s

Bandwidth

16.00GB/s

Render Config

2

SM Count

-

Compute Units

4

16

Shading Units

320

8

TMUs

16

4

ROPs

8

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

32 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

Theoretical Performance

1.836 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

4.400 GPixel/s

3.672 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

8.800 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

29.38 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

352.0 GFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

G86

GPU Name

Redwood

G86-300-A2

GPU Variant

Redwood LE

Tesla

Architecture

TeraScale 2

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

80 nm

Process Size

40 nm

0.21 billion

Transistors

0.627 billion

127 mm²

Die Size

104 mm²

Board Design

30W

TDP

39W

200 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

1x DVI 1x VGA 1x S-Video

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.3a 1x VGA

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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