AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT vs NVIDIA GeForce 8500 GT

VS

AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT

NVIDIA GeForce 8500 GT

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon RX 6500 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 6500 XT 's Advantages

Released 14 years and 9 months late

Boost Clock2815MHz

More VRAM (4GB vs 256GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (143.9GB/s vs 12.80GB/s)

1008 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce 8500 GT 's Advantages

Lower TDP (30W vs 107W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 6500 XT +19779%

5.765 TFLOPS

GeForce 8500 GT

0.029 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 6500 XT

VS

GeForce 8500 GT

Graphics Card

Jan 2022

Release Date

Apr 2007

Navi II

Generation

GeForce 8

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x4

Bus Interface

PCIe 1.0 x16

Clock Speeds

2310 MHz

Base Clock

-

2815 MHz

Boost Clock

-

2248 MHz

Memory Clock

400 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

256MB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR3

64bit

Memory Bus

128bit

143.9GB/s

Bandwidth

12.80GB/s

Render Config

16

Compute Units

-

SM Count

2

1024

Shading Units

16

64

TMUs

8

32

ROPs

4

-

16

RT Cores

-

128 KB per Array

L1 Cache

-

1024 KB

L2 Cache

32 KB

16 MB

L3 Cache

-

Theoretical Performance

90.08 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

1.836 GPixel/s

180.2 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

3.672 GTexel/s

11.53 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

5.765 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

29.38 GFLOPS

360.3 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

107W

TDP

30W

300 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

1x HDMI 2.1 1x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x DVI 1x VGA 1x S-Video

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Navi 24

GPU Name

G86

Navi 24 XT (215-135000006)

GPU Variant

G86-300-A2

RDNA 2.0

Architecture

Tesla

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

6 nm

Process Size

80 nm

5.4 billion

Transistors

0.21 billion

107 mm²

Die Size

127 mm²

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

11.1 (10_0)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3

2.2

OpenCL

1.1

1.3

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

1.1

6.6

Shader Model

4.0

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