AMD Radeon RX Vega 64 vs NVIDIA GeForce 8500 GT

VS

AMD Radeon RX Vega 64

NVIDIA GeForce 8500 GT

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM Radeon RX Vega 64 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 Vega 64 's Advantages

Released 10 years and 4 months late

Boost Clock1546MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 256GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (483.8GB/s vs 12.80GB/s)

4080 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce 8500 GT 's Advantages

Lower TDP (30W vs 295W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX Vega 64 +43555%

12.66 TFLOPS

GeForce 8500 GT

0.029 TFLOPS

Radeon RX Vega 64

VS

GeForce 8500 GT

Graphics Card

Aug 2017

Release Date

Apr 2007

Vega

Generation

GeForce 8

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 1.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1247 MHz

Base Clock

-

1546 MHz

Boost Clock

-

945 MHz

Memory Clock

400 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

256MB

HBM2

Memory Type

GDDR3

2048bit

Memory Bus

128bit

483.8GB/s

Bandwidth

12.80GB/s

Render Config

64

Compute Units

-

SM Count

2

4096

Shading Units

16

256

TMUs

8

64

ROPs

4

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

4 MB

L2 Cache

32 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

98.94 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

1.836 GPixel/s

395.8 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

3.672 GTexel/s

25.33 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

12.66 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

29.38 GFLOPS

791.6 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

295W

TDP

30W

600 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

1x HDMI 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x DVI 1x VGA 1x S-Video

2x 8-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Vega 10

GPU Name

G86

Vega 10 XT (215-0894200)

GPU Variant

G86-300-A2

GCN 5.0

Architecture

Tesla

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

80 nm

12.5 billion

Transistors

0.21 billion

495 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

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

1.1

6.4

Shader Model

4.0

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