AMD Radeon Pro Duo Polaris vs NVIDIA GeForce 8500 GT

VS

AMD Radeon Pro Duo Polaris

NVIDIA GeForce 8500 GT

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 16GB VRAM Radeon Pro Duo Polaris 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 Pro Duo Polaris 's Advantages

Released 10 years late

More VRAM (16GB vs 256GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.0GB/s vs 12.80GB/s)

2288 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce 8500 GT 's Advantages

Lower TDP (30W vs 250W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon Pro Duo Polaris +19651%

5.728 TFLOPS

GeForce 8500 GT

0.029 TFLOPS

Radeon Pro Duo Polaris

VS

GeForce 8500 GT

Graphics Card

Apr 2017

Release Date

Apr 2007

Radeon Pro GCN

Generation

GeForce 8

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 1.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

400 MHz

Memory

16GB

Memory Size

256MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

224.0GB/s

Bandwidth

12.80GB/s

Render Config

36

Compute Units

-

SM Count

2

2304

Shading Units

16

144

TMUs

8

32

ROPs

4

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

2 MB

L2 Cache

32 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

39.78 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

1.836 GPixel/s

179.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

3.672 GTexel/s

5.728 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

5.728 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

29.38 GFLOPS

358.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

250W

TDP

30W

600 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

1x HDMI 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x DVI 1x VGA 1x S-Video

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Ellesmere

GPU Name

G86

Ellesmere Gemini GL

GPU Variant

G86-300-A2

GCN 4.0

Architecture

Tesla

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

80 nm

5.7 billion

Transistors

0.21 billion

232 mm²

Die Size

127 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

11.1 (10_0)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3

2.1

OpenCL

1.1

1.3

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

1.1

6.7

Shader Model

4.0

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