ATI Radeon HD 5850 vs NVIDIA GeForce 8500 GT

VS

ATI Radeon HD 5850

NVIDIA GeForce 8500 GT

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 5850 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 5850 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 5 months late

More VRAM (1024GB vs 256GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (128.0GB/s vs 12.80GB/s)

1424 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce 8500 GT 's Advantages

Lower TDP (30W vs 151W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 5850 +7100%

2.088 TFLOPS

GeForce 8500 GT

0.029 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 5850

VS

GeForce 8500 GT

Graphics Card

Sep 2009

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

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

128.0GB/s

Bandwidth

12.80GB/s

Render Config

18

Compute Units

-

SM Count

2

1440

Shading Units

16

72

TMUs

8

32

ROPs

4

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

512 KB

L2 Cache

32 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

23.20 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

1.836 GPixel/s

52.20 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

3.672 GTexel/s

-

2.088 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

29.38 GFLOPS

417.6 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

151W

TDP

30W

450 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

2x DVI 1x HDMI 1.3a 1x DisplayPort 1.1

Outputs

1x DVI 1x VGA 1x S-Video

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Cypress

GPU Name

G86

Cypress PRO (215-0735043)

GPU Variant

G86-300-A2

TeraScale 2

Architecture

Tesla

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

80 nm

2.154 billion

Transistors

0.21 billion

334 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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