NVIDIA GeForce 8500 GT vs AMD Radeon HD 7950 Monica BIOS 2

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NVIDIA GeForce 8500 GT AMD Radeon HD 7950 Monica BIOS 2

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 256MB VRAM GeForce 8500 GT and 3GB VRAM Radeon HD 7950 Monica BIOS 2 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 85W)

AMD Radeon HD 7950 Monica BIOS 2 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 9 months late

Larger VRAM bandwidth (240.0GB/s vs 12.80GB/s)

752 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce 8500 GT

0.029 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 7950 Monica BIOS 2 +4137%

1.229 TFLOPS

GeForce 8500 GT

VS

Radeon HD 7950 Monica BIOS 2

Graphics Card

Apr 2007

Release Date

Jan 2012

GeForce 8

Generation

Southern Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 1.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

400 MHz

Memory Clock

1250 MHz

Memory

256MB

Memory Size

3GB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

384bit

12.80GB/s

Bandwidth

240.0GB/s

Render Config

2

SM Count

-

Compute Units

12

16

Shading Units

768

8

TMUs

48

4

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

32 KB

L2 Cache

768 KB

Theoretical Performance

1.836 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

25.60 GPixel/s

3.672 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

38.40 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

29.38 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1229 GFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

307.2 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

G86

GPU Name

Tahiti

G86-300-A2

GPU Variant

Tahiti PRO (215-0821056)

Tesla

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

80 nm

Process Size

28 nm

0.21 billion

Transistors

4.313 billion

127 mm²

Die Size

352 mm²

Board Design

30W

TDP

85W

200 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

1x DVI 1x VGA 1x S-Video

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2

None

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Features

11.1 (10_0)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

3.3

OpenGL

4.6

1.1

OpenCL

1.2

N/A

Vulkan

1.2

1.1

CUDA

-

4.0

Shader Model

5.1

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