AMD Radeon Pro WX 5100 vs NVIDIA GeForce 8500 GT

VS

AMD Radeon Pro WX 5100

NVIDIA GeForce 8500 GT

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM Radeon Pro WX 5100 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 WX 5100 's Advantages

Released 9 years and 7 months late

Boost Clock1086MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 256GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (160.0GB/s vs 12.80GB/s)

1776 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce 8500 GT 's Advantages

Lower TDP (30W vs 75W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon Pro WX 5100 +13320%

3.892 TFLOPS

GeForce 8500 GT

0.029 TFLOPS

Radeon Pro WX 5100

VS

GeForce 8500 GT

Graphics Card

Nov 2016

Release Date

Apr 2007

Radeon Pro

Generation

GeForce 8

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 1.0 x16

Clock Speeds

713 MHz

Base Clock

-

1086 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1250 MHz

Memory Clock

400 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

256MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

160.0GB/s

Bandwidth

12.80GB/s

Render Config

28

Compute Units

-

SM Count

2

1792

Shading Units

16

112

TMUs

8

32

ROPs

4

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

2 MB

L2 Cache

32 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

34.75 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

1.836 GPixel/s

121.6 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

3.672 GTexel/s

3.892 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

3.892 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

29.38 GFLOPS

243.3 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

75W

TDP

30W

250 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

4x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x DVI 1x VGA 1x S-Video

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Ellesmere

GPU Name

G86

Polaris 10 PRO GL (215-0876144)

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

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

1.1

6.4

Shader Model

4.0

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