ATI Radeon HD 5470 vs NVIDIA GeForce 8500 GT

VS

ATI Radeon HD 5470

NVIDIA GeForce 8500 GT

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM Radeon HD 5470 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 5470 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 10 months late

More VRAM (512GB vs 256GB)

64 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (19W vs 30W)

NVIDIA GeForce 8500 GT 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (12.80GB/s vs 6.400GB/s)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 5470 +258%

0.104 TFLOPS

GeForce 8500 GT

0.029 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 5470

VS

GeForce 8500 GT

Graphics Card

Feb 2012

Release Date

Apr 2007

Evergreen

Generation

GeForce 8

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 1.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

400 MHz

Memory Clock

400 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

256MB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR3

64bit

Memory Bus

128bit

6.400GB/s

Bandwidth

12.80GB/s

Render Config

2

Compute Units

-

SM Count

2

80

Shading Units

16

8

TMUs

8

4

ROPs

4

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

128 KB

L2 Cache

32 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

2.600 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

1.836 GPixel/s

5.200 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

3.672 GTexel/s

-

104.0 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

29.38 GFLOPS

-

Board Design

19W

TDP

30W

200 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.3a 1x VGA

Outputs

1x DVI 1x VGA 1x S-Video

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Cedar

GPU Name

G86

Cedar PRO

GPU Variant

G86-300-A2

TeraScale 2

Architecture

Tesla

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

80 nm

0.292 billion

Transistors

0.21 billion

59 mm²

Die Size

127 mm²

Graphics Features

11.2 (11_0)

DirectX

11.1 (10_0)

4.4

OpenGL

3.3

1.2

OpenCL

1.1

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

1.1

5.0

Shader Model

4.0

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