AMD Radeon R5 310 OEM vs NVIDIA GeForce 8500 GT

VS

AMD Radeon R5 310 OEM

NVIDIA GeForce 8500 GT

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM Radeon R5 310 OEM 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 R5 310 OEM 's Advantages

Released 8 years and 1 months late

More VRAM (1024GB vs 256GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (14.40GB/s vs 12.80GB/s)

144 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce 8500 GT 's Advantages

Lower TDP (30W vs 35W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R5 310 OEM +865%

0.28 TFLOPS

GeForce 8500 GT

0.029 TFLOPS

Radeon R5 310 OEM

VS

GeForce 8500 GT

Graphics Card

May 2015

Release Date

Apr 2007

Pirate Islands

Generation

GeForce 8

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 1.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

900 MHz

Memory Clock

400 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

256MB

DDR3

Memory Type

GDDR3

64bit

Memory Bus

128bit

14.40GB/s

Bandwidth

12.80GB/s

Render Config

2

Compute Units

-

SM Count

2

160

Shading Units

16

8

TMUs

8

4

ROPs

4

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

128 KB

L2 Cache

32 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

3.500 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

1.836 GPixel/s

7.000 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

3.672 GTexel/s

-

280.0 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

29.38 GFLOPS

-

Board Design

35W

TDP

30W

200 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.3a

Outputs

1x DVI 1x VGA 1x S-Video

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Caicos

GPU Name

G86

Caicos XT (215-0804070)

GPU Variant

G86-300-A2

TeraScale 2

Architecture

Tesla

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

80 nm

0.37 billion

Transistors

0.21 billion

67 mm²

Die Size

127 mm²

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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