AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX vs NVIDIA GeForce 8500 GT

VS

AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX

NVIDIA GeForce 8500 GT

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 24GB VRAM Radeon RX 7900 XTX 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 7900 XTX 's Advantages

Released 15 years and 7 months late

Boost Clock2498MHz

More VRAM (24GB vs 256GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (960.0GB/s vs 12.80GB/s)

6128 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce 8500 GT 's Advantages

Lower TDP (30W vs 355W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 7900 XTX +211589%

61.39 TFLOPS

GeForce 8500 GT

0.029 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 7900 XTX

VS

GeForce 8500 GT

Graphics Card

Nov 2022

Release Date

Apr 2007

Navi III

Generation

GeForce 8

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 1.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1929 MHz

Base Clock

-

2498 MHz

Boost Clock

-

2500 MHz

Memory Clock

400 MHz

Memory

24GB

Memory Size

256MB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR3

384bit

Memory Bus

128bit

960.0GB/s

Bandwidth

12.80GB/s

Render Config

96

Compute Units

-

SM Count

2

6144

Shading Units

16

384

TMUs

8

192

ROPs

4

-

96

RT Cores

-

256 KB per Array

L1 Cache

-

6 MB

L2 Cache

32 KB

96 MB

L3 Cache

-

Theoretical Performance

479.6 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

1.836 GPixel/s

959.2 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

3.672 GTexel/s

122.8 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

61.39 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

29.38 GFLOPS

1.918 TFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

355W

TDP

30W

750 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

1x HDMI 2.1a 2x DisplayPort 2.1 1x USB Type-C

Outputs

1x DVI 1x VGA 1x S-Video

2x 8-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Navi 31

GPU Name

G86

Navi 31 XTX (215-145000146)

GPU Variant

G86-300-A2

RDNA 3.0

Architecture

Tesla

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

5 nm

Process Size

80 nm

57.7 billion

Transistors

0.21 billion

529 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

6.7

Shader Model

4.0

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