AMD Radeon R7 250E vs NVIDIA GeForce 8500 GT

VS

AMD Radeon R7 250E

NVIDIA GeForce 8500 GT

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM Radeon R7 250E 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 R7 250E 's Advantages

Released 6 years and 8 months late

More VRAM (1024GB vs 256GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (72.00GB/s vs 12.80GB/s)

496 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce 8500 GT 's Advantages

Lower TDP (30W vs 55W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R7 250E +2724%

0.819 TFLOPS

GeForce 8500 GT

0.029 TFLOPS

Radeon R7 250E

VS

GeForce 8500 GT

Graphics Card

Dec 2013

Release Date

Apr 2007

Volcanic Islands

Generation

GeForce 8

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 1.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

1125 MHz

Memory Clock

400 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

256MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

72.00GB/s

Bandwidth

12.80GB/s

Render Config

8

Compute Units

-

SM Count

2

512

Shading Units

16

32

TMUs

8

16

ROPs

4

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

256 KB

L2 Cache

32 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

12.80 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

1.836 GPixel/s

25.60 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

3.672 GTexel/s

-

819.2 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

29.38 GFLOPS

51.20 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

55W

TDP

30W

250 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 1x DisplayPort 1.2

Outputs

1x DVI 1x VGA 1x S-Video

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Cape Verde

GPU Name

G86

Cape Verde PRO

GPU Variant

G86-300-A2

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Tesla

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

80 nm

1.5 billion

Transistors

0.21 billion

123 mm²

Die Size

127 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

11.1 (10_0)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3

1.2

OpenCL

1.1

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

1.1

5.1

Shader Model

4.0

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