NVIDIA GeForce 8500 GT vs AMD Radeon R7 250X

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NVIDIA GeForce 8500 GT AMD Radeon R7 250X

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 256MB VRAM GeForce 8500 GT and 1024MB VRAM Radeon R7 250X 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 80W)

AMD Radeon R7 250X 's Advantages

Released 6 years and 10 months late

More VRAM (1024GB vs 256GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (72.00GB/s vs 12.80GB/s)

624 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce 8500 GT

0.029 TFLOPS

Radeon R7 250X +4093%

1.216 TFLOPS

GeForce 8500 GT

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Radeon R7 250X

Graphics Card

Apr 2007

Release Date

Feb 2014

GeForce 8

Generation

Volcanic Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 1.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

400 MHz

Memory Clock

1125 MHz

Memory

256MB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

12.80GB/s

Bandwidth

72.00GB/s

Render Config

2

SM Count

-

Compute Units

10

16

Shading Units

640

8

TMUs

40

4

ROPs

16

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

32 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

Theoretical Performance

1.836 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

15.20 GPixel/s

3.672 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

38.00 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

29.38 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1216 GFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

76.00 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

G86

GPU Name

Cape Verde

G86-300-A2

GPU Variant

Cape Verde XT

Tesla

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

80 nm

Process Size

28 nm

0.21 billion

Transistors

1.5 billion

127 mm²

Die Size

123 mm²

Board Design

30W

TDP

80W

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

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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