ATI Radeon X550 XT vs NVIDIA GeForce 8500 GT

VS

ATI Radeon X550 XT

NVIDIA GeForce 8500 GT

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 128MB VRAM Radeon X550 XT and 256MB VRAM GeForce 8500 GT to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce 8500 GT 's Advantages

More VRAM (256GB vs 128GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (12.80GB/s vs 9.600GB/s)

16 additional rendering cores

Score

Radeon X550 XT

VS

GeForce 8500 GT

Graphics Card

Jan 2007

Release Date

Apr 2007

Radeon R300

Generation

GeForce 8

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 1.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 1.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

300 MHz

Memory Clock

400 MHz

Memory

128MB

Memory Size

256MB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR3

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

9.600GB/s

Bandwidth

12.80GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

2

-

Shading Units

16

4

TMUs

8

4

ROPs

4

-

L2 Cache

32 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

1.600 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

1.836 GPixel/s

1.600 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

3.672 GTexel/s

-

FP32 (float)

29.38 GFLOPS

-

Board Design

Unknown

TDP

30W

200 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

1x DVI 1x VGA 1x S-Video

Outputs

1x DVI 1x VGA 1x S-Video

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

RV410

GPU Name

G86

-

GPU Variant

G86-300-A2

R400

Architecture

Tesla

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

110 nm

Process Size

80 nm

0.12 billion

Transistors

0.21 billion

156 mm²

Die Size

127 mm²

Graphics Features

9.0b (9_2)

DirectX

11.1 (10_0)

2.0

OpenGL

3.3

N/A

OpenCL

1.1

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

1.1

-

Shader Model

4.0

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