AMD Radeon 550X vs NVIDIA GeForce 8500 GT

VS

AMD Radeon 550X

NVIDIA GeForce 8500 GT

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon 550X and 256MB VRAM GeForce 8500 GT to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon 550X 's Advantages

Released 11 years and 11 months late

Boost Clock1218MHz

More VRAM (2GB vs 256GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (112.0GB/s vs 12.80GB/s)

496 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce 8500 GT 's Advantages

Lower TDP (30W vs 50W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon 550X +4200%

1.247 TFLOPS

GeForce 8500 GT

0.029 TFLOPS

Radeon 550X

VS

GeForce 8500 GT

Graphics Card

Mar 2019

Release Date

Apr 2007

Polaris

Generation

GeForce 8

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 1.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1082 MHz

Base Clock

-

1218 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

400 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

256MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

112.0GB/s

Bandwidth

12.80GB/s

Render Config

8

Compute Units

-

SM Count

2

512

Shading Units

16

32

TMUs

8

16

ROPs

4

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

512 KB

L2 Cache

32 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

19.49 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

1.836 GPixel/s

38.98 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

3.672 GTexel/s

1247 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

1247 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

29.38 GFLOPS

77.95 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

50W

TDP

30W

250 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0b 1x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x DVI 1x VGA 1x S-Video

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Lexa

GPU Name

G86

Lexa PRO (215-0904018)

GPU Variant

G86-300-A2

GCN 4.0

Architecture

Tesla

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

80 nm

2.2 billion

Transistors

0.21 billion

103 mm²

Die Size

127 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

11.1 (10_0)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3

2.1

OpenCL

1.1

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

1.1

6.4

Shader Model

4.0

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