AMD Radeon R7 260 vs NVIDIA GeForce 8500 GT

VS

AMD Radeon R7 260 NVIDIA GeForce 8500 GT

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon R7 260 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 260 's Advantages

Released 6 years and 8 months late

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

752 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce 8500 GT 's Advantages

Lower TDP (30W vs 95W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R7 260 +5196%

1.536 TFLOPS

GeForce 8500 GT

0.029 TFLOPS

Radeon R7 260

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

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

400 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

256MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

96.00GB/s

Bandwidth

12.80GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

2

12

Compute Units

-

768

Shading Units

16

48

TMUs

8

16

ROPs

4

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

256 KB

L2 Cache

32 KB

Theoretical Performance

16.00 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

1.836 GPixel/s

48.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

3.672 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

1.536 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

29.38 GFLOPS

96.00 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

Bonaire

GPU Name

G86

Bonaire PRO

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

Board Design

95W

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

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

None

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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