ATI Radeon HD 4730 vs NVIDIA GeForce 8500 GT

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ATI Radeon HD 4730 NVIDIA GeForce 8500 GT

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM Radeon HD 4730 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 4730 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 2 months late

More VRAM (512GB vs 256GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (57.60GB/s vs 12.80GB/s)

624 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce 8500 GT 's Advantages

Lower TDP (30W vs 110W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 4730 +3210%

0.96 TFLOPS

GeForce 8500 GT

0.029 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 4730

VS

GeForce 8500 GT

Graphics Card

Jun 2009

Release Date

Apr 2007

Radeon R700

Generation

GeForce 8

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 1.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

900 MHz

Memory Clock

400 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

256MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

57.60GB/s

Bandwidth

12.80GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

2

8

Compute Units

-

640

Shading Units

16

32

TMUs

8

ROPs

4

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

128 KB

L2 Cache

32 KB

Theoretical Performance

6.000 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

1.836 GPixel/s

24.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

3.672 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

960.0 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

29.38 GFLOPS

192.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

RV770

GPU Name

G86

RV770 CE (215-0669093)

GPU Variant

G86-300-A2

TeraScale

Architecture

Tesla

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

55 nm

Process Size

80 nm

0.956 billion

Transistors

0.21 billion

256 mm²

Die Size

127 mm²

Board Design

110W

TDP

30W

300 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

2x DVI 1x S-Video

Outputs

1x DVI 1x VGA 1x S-Video

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

10.1 (10_1)

DirectX

11.1 (10_0)

3.3

OpenGL

3.3

1.1

OpenCL

1.1

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

1.1

4.1

Shader Model

4.0

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