AMD Radeon RX 5500 XT vs NVIDIA GeForce 8500 GT

VS

AMD Radeon RX 5500 XT

NVIDIA GeForce 8500 GT

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon RX 5500 XT 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 5500 XT 's Advantages

Released 12 years and 8 months late

Boost Clock1845MHz

More VRAM (4GB vs 256GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.0GB/s vs 12.80GB/s)

1392 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce 8500 GT 's Advantages

Lower TDP (30W vs 130W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 5500 XT +17817%

5.196 TFLOPS

GeForce 8500 GT

0.029 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 5500 XT

VS

GeForce 8500 GT

Graphics Card

Dec 2019

Release Date

Apr 2007

Navi

Generation

GeForce 8

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 1.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1607 MHz

Base Clock

-

1845 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

400 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

256MB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR3

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

224.0GB/s

Bandwidth

12.80GB/s

Render Config

22

Compute Units

-

SM Count

2

1408

Shading Units

16

88

TMUs

8

32

ROPs

4

-

2 MB

L2 Cache

32 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

59.04 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

1.836 GPixel/s

162.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

3.672 GTexel/s

10.39 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

5.196 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

29.38 GFLOPS

324.7 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

130W

TDP

30W

300 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x DVI 1x VGA 1x S-Video

1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Navi 14

GPU Name

G86

Navi 14 XTX (215-0932396)

GPU Variant

G86-300-A2

RDNA 1.0

Architecture

Tesla

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

7 nm

Process Size

80 nm

6.4 billion

Transistors

0.21 billion

158 mm²

Die Size

127 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

11.1 (10_0)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3

2.1

OpenCL

1.1

1.3

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

1.1

6.5

Shader Model

4.0

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