AMD Radeon RX 580 vs NVIDIA GeForce 8500 GT

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AMD Radeon RX 580 NVIDIA GeForce 8500 GT

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM Radeon RX 580 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 580 's Advantages

Released 10 years late

Boost Clock1340MHz

Larger VRAM bandwidth (256.0GB/s vs 12.80GB/s)

2288 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce 8500 GT 's Advantages

Lower TDP (30W vs 185W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 580 +21193%

6.175 TFLOPS

GeForce 8500 GT

0.029 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 580

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GeForce 8500 GT

Graphics Card

Apr 2017

Release Date

Apr 2007

Polaris

Generation

GeForce 8

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 1.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1257 MHz

Base Clock

-

1340 MHz

Boost Clock

-

2000 MHz

Memory Clock

400 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

256MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

256.0GB/s

Bandwidth

12.80GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

2

36

Compute Units

-

2304

Shading Units

16

144

TMUs

8

32

ROPs

4

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

2 MB

L2 Cache

32 KB

Theoretical Performance

42.88 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

1.836 GPixel/s

193.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

3.672 GTexel/s

6.175 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

6.175 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

29.38 GFLOPS

385.9 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

Polaris 20

GPU Name

G86

Polaris 20 XTX (215-0910038)

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

Board Design

185W

TDP

30W

450 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

1x HDMI 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x DVI 1x VGA 1x S-Video

1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

None

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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