NVIDIA GeForce 8500 GT vs AMD Radeon R9 285X

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NVIDIA GeForce 8500 GT AMD Radeon R9 285X

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 256MB VRAM GeForce 8500 GT and 3GB VRAM Radeon R9 285X 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 200W)

AMD Radeon R9 285X 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (264.0GB/s vs 12.80GB/s)

2032 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce 8500 GT

0.029 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 285X +14051%

4.104 TFLOPS

GeForce 8500 GT

VS

Radeon R9 285X

Graphics Card

Apr 2007

Release Date

Unknown

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

1375 MHz

Memory

256MB

Memory Size

3GB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

384bit

12.80GB/s

Bandwidth

264.0GB/s

Render Config

2

SM Count

-

Compute Units

32

16

Shading Units

2048

8

TMUs

128

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

32.06 GPixel/s

3.672 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

128.3 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

29.38 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

4.104 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

G86

GPU Name

Tonga

G86-300-A2

GPU Variant

Tonga XT (215-0851313)

Tesla

Architecture

GCN 3.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

80 nm

Process Size

28 nm

0.21 billion

Transistors

5 billion

127 mm²

Die Size

366 mm²

Board Design

30W

TDP

200W

200 W

Suggested PSU

550 W

1x DVI 1x VGA 1x S-Video

Outputs

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

None

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Features

11.1 (10_0)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

3.3

OpenGL

4.6

1.1

OpenCL

2.0

N/A

Vulkan

1.2

1.1

CUDA

-

4.0

Shader Model

6.3

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