AMD Radeon Vega Frontier Edition Watercooled vs NVIDIA GeForce 8500 GT

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AMD Radeon Vega Frontier Edition Watercooled

NVIDIA GeForce 8500 GT

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 16GB VRAM Radeon Vega Frontier Edition Watercooled 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 Vega Frontier Edition Watercooled 's Advantages

Released 10 years and 3 months late

Boost Clock1600MHz

More VRAM (16GB 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 375W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon Vega Frontier Edition Watercooled +45106%

13.11 TFLOPS

GeForce 8500 GT

0.029 TFLOPS

Radeon Vega Frontier Edition Watercooled

VS

GeForce 8500 GT

Graphics Card

Jul 2017

Release Date

Apr 2007

Radeon Pro

Generation

GeForce 8

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 1.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1382 MHz

Base Clock

-

1600 MHz

Boost Clock

-

945 MHz

Memory Clock

400 MHz

Memory

16GB

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

102.4 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

1.836 GPixel/s

409.6 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

3.672 GTexel/s

26.21 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

13.11 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

29.38 GFLOPS

819.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

375W

TDP

30W

750 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 XTX LCS

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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