AMD Radeon RX 470D vs NVIDIA GeForce 8500 GT

VS

AMD Radeon RX 470D

NVIDIA GeForce 8500 GT

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon RX 470D 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 RX 470D 's Advantages

Released 9 years and 6 months late

Boost Clock1206MHz

More VRAM (4GB vs 256GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (211.2GB/s vs 12.80GB/s)

1776 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce 8500 GT 's Advantages

Lower TDP (30W vs 120W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 470D +14803%

4.322 TFLOPS

GeForce 8500 GT

0.029 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 470D

VS

GeForce 8500 GT

Graphics Card

Oct 2016

Release Date

Apr 2007

Arctic Islands

Generation

GeForce 8

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 1.0 x16

Clock Speeds

926 MHz

Base Clock

-

1206 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1650 MHz

Memory Clock

400 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

256MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

211.2GB/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

38.59 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

1.836 GPixel/s

135.1 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

3.672 GTexel/s

4.322 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

4.322 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

29.38 GFLOPS

270.1 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

120W

TDP

30W

300 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

1x HDMI 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x DVI 1x VGA 1x S-Video

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Ellesmere

GPU Name

G86

Polaris 10 PROD

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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