AMD Radeon HD 6970 vs NVIDIA GeForce 8500 GT

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AMD Radeon HD 6970 NVIDIA GeForce 8500 GT

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 6970 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 6970 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 8 months late

Larger VRAM bandwidth (176.0GB/s vs 12.80GB/s)

1520 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce 8500 GT 's Advantages

Lower TDP (30W vs 250W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 6970 +9220%

2.703 TFLOPS

GeForce 8500 GT

0.029 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6970

VS

GeForce 8500 GT

Graphics Card

Dec 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

-

1375 MHz

Memory Clock

400 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

256MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

176.0GB/s

Bandwidth

12.80GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

2

24

Compute Units

-

1536

Shading Units

16

96

TMUs

8

32

ROPs

4

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

512 KB

L2 Cache

32 KB

Theoretical Performance

28.16 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

1.836 GPixel/s

84.48 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

3.672 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

2.703 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

29.38 GFLOPS

675.8 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

Cayman

GPU Name

G86

Cayman XT (215-0807007)

GPU Variant

G86-300-A2

TeraScale 3

Architecture

Tesla

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

80 nm

2.64 billion

Transistors

0.21 billion

389 mm²

Die Size

127 mm²

Board Design

250W

TDP

30W

600 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

2x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2

Outputs

1x DVI 1x VGA 1x S-Video

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-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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