AMD Radeon R9 FURY vs NVIDIA GeForce 8500 GT

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AMD Radeon R9 FURY NVIDIA GeForce 8500 GT

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 FURY 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 R9 FURY 's Advantages

Released 8 years and 3 months late

Larger VRAM bandwidth (512.0GB/s vs 12.80GB/s)

3568 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce 8500 GT 's Advantages

Lower TDP (30W vs 275W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 FURY +24617%

7.168 TFLOPS

GeForce 8500 GT

0.029 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 FURY

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GeForce 8500 GT

Graphics Card

Jul 2015

Release Date

Apr 2007

Pirate Islands

Generation

GeForce 8

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 1.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

500 MHz

Memory Clock

400 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

256MB

HBM

Memory Type

GDDR3

4096bit

Memory Bus

128bit

512.0GB/s

Bandwidth

12.80GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

2

56

Compute Units

-

3584

Shading Units

16

224

TMUs

8

64

ROPs

4

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

2 MB

L2 Cache

32 KB

Theoretical Performance

64.00 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

1.836 GPixel/s

224.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

3.672 GTexel/s

7.168 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

7.168 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

29.38 GFLOPS

448.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

Fiji

GPU Name

G86

Fiji PRO CB (215-0862046)

GPU Variant

G86-300-A2

GCN 3.0

Architecture

Tesla

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

80 nm

8.9 billion

Transistors

0.21 billion

596 mm²

Die Size

127 mm²

Board Design

275W

TDP

30W

600 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

1x HDMI 1.4a 3x DisplayPort 1.2

Outputs

1x DVI 1x VGA 1x S-Video

2x 8-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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