AMD Radeon HD 7790 vs NVIDIA GeForce 8500 GT

VS

AMD Radeon HD 7790

NVIDIA GeForce 8500 GT

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 7790 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 7790 's Advantages

Released 5 years and 11 months late

More VRAM (1024GB vs 256GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (96.00GB/s vs 12.80GB/s)

880 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce 8500 GT 's Advantages

Lower TDP (30W vs 85W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 7790 +6079%

1.792 TFLOPS

GeForce 8500 GT

0.029 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 7790

VS

GeForce 8500 GT

Graphics Card

Mar 2013

Release Date

Apr 2007

Southern Islands

Generation

GeForce 8

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 1.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

400 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

256MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

96.00GB/s

Bandwidth

12.80GB/s

Render Config

14

Compute Units

-

SM Count

2

896

Shading Units

16

56

TMUs

8

16

ROPs

4

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

256 KB

L2 Cache

32 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

16.00 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

1.836 GPixel/s

56.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

3.672 GTexel/s

-

1.792 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

29.38 GFLOPS

112.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

85W

TDP

30W

250 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

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

Outputs

1x DVI 1x VGA 1x S-Video

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Bonaire

GPU Name

G86

Bonaire XT (215-0839039)

GPU Variant

G86-300-A2

GCN 2.0

Architecture

Tesla

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

80 nm

2.08 billion

Transistors

0.21 billion

160 mm²

Die Size

127 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

11.1 (10_0)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3

2.0

OpenCL

1.1

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

1.1

6.3

Shader Model

4.0

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