ATI Radeon HD 3470 vs NVIDIA GeForce 8500 GT

VS

ATI Radeon HD 3470

NVIDIA GeForce 8500 GT

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 256MB VRAM Radeon HD 3470 and 256MB VRAM GeForce 8500 GT to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

ATI Radeon HD 3470 's Advantages

Released 9 months late

Larger VRAM bandwidth (15.20GB/s vs 12.80GB/s)

24 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 3470 +120%

0.064 TFLOPS

GeForce 8500 GT

0.029 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 3470

VS

GeForce 8500 GT

Graphics Card

Jan 2008

Release Date

Apr 2007

Radeon R600

Generation

GeForce 8

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 1.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

950 MHz

Memory Clock

400 MHz

Memory

256MB

Memory Size

256MB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR3

64bit

Memory Bus

128bit

15.20GB/s

Bandwidth

12.80GB/s

Render Config

2

Compute Units

-

SM Count

2

40

Shading Units

16

4

TMUs

8

4

ROPs

4

-

64 KB

L2 Cache

32 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

3.200 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

1.836 GPixel/s

3.200 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

3.672 GTexel/s

-

64.00 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

29.38 GFLOPS

-

Board Design

30W

TDP

30W

200 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

1x DVI 1x VGA 1x S-Video

Outputs

1x DVI 1x VGA 1x S-Video

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

RV620

GPU Name

G86

RV620 PRO (215-0670006)

GPU Variant

G86-300-A2

TeraScale

Architecture

Tesla

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

55 nm

Process Size

80 nm

0.181 billion

Transistors

0.21 billion

67 mm²

Die Size

127 mm²

Graphics Features

10.1 (10_1)

DirectX

11.1 (10_0)

3.3

OpenGL

3.3

N/A

OpenCL

1.1

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

1.1

4.1

Shader Model

4.0

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