NVIDIA GeForce 8500 GT vs AMD Radeon R7 430 OEM

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NVIDIA GeForce 8500 GT AMD Radeon R7 430 OEM

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 256MB VRAM GeForce 8500 GT and 2GB VRAM Radeon R7 430 OEM 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 50W)

AMD Radeon R7 430 OEM 's Advantages

Released 9 years and 2 months late

Boost Clock780MHz

Larger VRAM bandwidth (28.80GB/s vs 12.80GB/s)

368 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce 8500 GT

0.029 TFLOPS

Radeon R7 430 OEM +1965%

0.599 TFLOPS

GeForce 8500 GT

VS

Radeon R7 430 OEM

Graphics Card

Apr 2007

Release Date

Jun 2016

GeForce 8

Generation

Arctic Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 1.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x8

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

730 MHz

-

Boost Clock

780 MHz

400 MHz

Memory Clock

900 MHz

Memory

256MB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR3

Memory Type

DDR3

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

12.80GB/s

Bandwidth

28.80GB/s

Render Config

2

SM Count

-

Compute Units

6

16

Shading Units

384

8

TMUs

24

4

ROPs

8

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

32 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

Theoretical Performance

1.836 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

6.240 GPixel/s

3.672 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

18.72 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

29.38 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

599.0 GFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

37.44 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

G86

GPU Name

Oland

G86-300-A2

GPU Variant

-

Tesla

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

80 nm

Process Size

28 nm

0.21 billion

Transistors

0.95 billion

127 mm²

Die Size

77 mm²

Board Design

30W

TDP

50W

200 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

1x DVI 1x VGA 1x S-Video

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 1x VGA

None

Power Connectors

None

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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