NVIDIA GeForce 8500 GT vs AMD Radeon RX 6950 XT

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NVIDIA GeForce 8500 GT AMD Radeon RX 6950 XT

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 256MB VRAM GeForce 8500 GT and 16GB VRAM Radeon RX 6950 XT 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 335W)

AMD Radeon RX 6950 XT 's Advantages

Released 15 years and 1 months late

Boost Clock2310MHz

Larger VRAM bandwidth (576.0GB/s vs 12.80GB/s)

5104 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce 8500 GT

0.029 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 6950 XT +81451%

23.65 TFLOPS

GeForce 8500 GT

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Radeon RX 6950 XT

Graphics Card

Apr 2007

Release Date

May 2022

GeForce 8

Generation

Navi II

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 1.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1860 MHz

-

Boost Clock

2310 MHz

400 MHz

Memory Clock

2250 MHz

Memory

256MB

Memory Size

16GB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR6

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

12.80GB/s

Bandwidth

576.0GB/s

Render Config

2

SM Count

-

Compute Units

80

16

Shading Units

5120

8

TMUs

320

4

ROPs

128

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

80

-

L1 Cache

128 KB per Array

32 KB

L2 Cache

4 MB

Theoretical Performance

1.836 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

295.7 GPixel/s

3.672 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

739.2 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

47.31 TFLOPS

29.38 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

23.65 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

1478 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

G86

GPU Name

Navi 21

G86-300-A2

GPU Variant

Navi 21 KXTX (215-121000289)

Tesla

Architecture

RDNA 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

80 nm

Process Size

7 nm

0.21 billion

Transistors

26.8 billion

127 mm²

Die Size

520 mm²

Board Design

30W

TDP

335W

200 W

Suggested PSU

700 W

1x DVI 1x VGA 1x S-Video

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1 2x DisplayPort 1.4a

None

Power Connectors

2x 8-pin

Graphics Features

11.1 (10_0)

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

3.3

OpenGL

4.6

1.1

OpenCL

2.1

N/A

Vulkan

1.3

1.1

CUDA

-

4.0

Shader Model

6.5

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