ATI Radeon HD 5690 vs NVIDIA GeForce 8500 GT

VS

ATI Radeon HD 5690

NVIDIA GeForce 8500 GT

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 5690 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 5690 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 10 months late

More VRAM (1024GB vs 256GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (32.00GB/s vs 12.80GB/s)

384 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce 8500 GT 's Advantages

Lower TDP (30W vs 64W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 5690 +2037%

0.62 TFLOPS

GeForce 8500 GT

0.029 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 5690

VS

GeForce 8500 GT

Graphics Card

Feb 2011

Release Date

Apr 2007

Evergreen

Generation

GeForce 8

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 1.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

1000 MHz

Memory Clock

400 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

256MB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR3

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

32.00GB/s

Bandwidth

12.80GB/s

Render Config

5

Compute Units

-

SM Count

2

400

Shading Units

16

20

TMUs

8

ROPs

4

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

256 KB

L2 Cache

32 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

6.200 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

1.836 GPixel/s

15.50 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

3.672 GTexel/s

-

620.0 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

29.38 GFLOPS

-

Board Design

64W

TDP

30W

250 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.3a 1x VGA

Outputs

1x DVI 1x VGA 1x S-Video

-

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Redwood

GPU Name

G86

Redwood XT (215-0757002)

GPU Variant

G86-300-A2

TeraScale 2

Architecture

Tesla

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

80 nm

0.627 billion

Transistors

0.21 billion

104 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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