AMD Radeon HD 6850 vs NVIDIA GeForce 8500 GT

VS

AMD Radeon HD 6850 NVIDIA GeForce 8500 GT

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 6850 and 256MB VRAM GeForce 8500 GT to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 6850 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 6 months late

More VRAM (1024GB vs 256GB)

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

944 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce 8500 GT 's Advantages

Lower TDP (30W vs 127W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 6850 +5031%

1.488 TFLOPS

GeForce 8500 GT

0.029 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6850

VS

GeForce 8500 GT

Graphics Card

Oct 2010

Release Date

Apr 2007

Northern Islands

Generation

GeForce 8

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 1.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

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

-

SM Count

2

12

Compute Units

-

960

Shading Units

16

48

TMUs

8

32

ROPs

4

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

512 KB

L2 Cache

32 KB

Theoretical Performance

24.80 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

1.836 GPixel/s

37.20 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

3.672 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

1488 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

29.38 GFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

Barts

GPU Name

G86

Barts PRO (215-0798006)

GPU Variant

G86-300-A2

TeraScale 2

Architecture

Tesla

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

80 nm

1.7 billion

Transistors

0.21 billion

255 mm²

Die Size

127 mm²

Board Design

127W

TDP

30W

300 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

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

Outputs

1x DVI 1x VGA 1x S-Video

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

None

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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