ATI Radeon X1950 PRO DUAL vs NVIDIA GeForce 8500 GT

VS

ATI Radeon X1950 PRO DUAL

NVIDIA GeForce 8500 GT

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM Radeon X1950 PRO DUAL and 256MB VRAM GeForce 8500 GT to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

ATI Radeon X1950 PRO DUAL 's Advantages

More VRAM (512GB vs 256GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (44.16GB/s vs 12.80GB/s)

NVIDIA GeForce 8500 GT 's Advantages

16 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (30W vs 130W)

Score

Radeon X1950 PRO DUAL

VS

GeForce 8500 GT

Graphics Card

Jan 2007

Release Date

Apr 2007

Radeon R500 PCIe

Generation

GeForce 8

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 1.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 1.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

690 MHz

Memory Clock

400 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

256MB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

44.16GB/s

Bandwidth

12.80GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

2

-

Shading Units

16

12

TMUs

8

12

ROPs

4

-

L2 Cache

32 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

6.900 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

1.836 GPixel/s

6.900 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

3.672 GTexel/s

-

FP32 (float)

29.38 GFLOPS

-

Board Design

130W

TDP

30W

300 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

2x DVI 1x S-Video

Outputs

1x DVI 1x VGA 1x S-Video

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

RV570

GPU Name

G86

RV570 XT (215PADAKA12FG)

GPU Variant

G86-300-A2

R500

Architecture

Tesla

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

80 nm

Process Size

80 nm

0.33 billion

Transistors

0.21 billion

230 mm²

Die Size

127 mm²

Graphics Features

9.0c (9_3)

DirectX

11.1 (10_0)

2.1 (full) 3.0 (partial)

OpenGL

3.3

N/A

OpenCL

1.1

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

1.1

3.0

Shader Model

4.0

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