AMD Radeon RX 7700 XT vs NVIDIA GeForce 8500 GT

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AMD Radeon RX 7700 XT NVIDIA GeForce 8500 GT

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 12GB VRAM Radeon RX 7700 XT 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 7700 XT 's Advantages

Released 16 years and 4 months late

Boost Clock2544MHz

Larger VRAM bandwidth (432.0GB/s vs 12.80GB/s)

3440 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce 8500 GT 's Advantages

Lower TDP (30W vs 245W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 7700 XT +121175%

35.17 TFLOPS

GeForce 8500 GT

0.029 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 7700 XT

VS

GeForce 8500 GT

Graphics Card

Aug 2023

Release Date

Apr 2007

Navi III

Generation

GeForce 8

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 1.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1435 MHz

Base Clock

-

2544 MHz

Boost Clock

-

2250 MHz

Memory Clock

400 MHz

Memory

12GB

Memory Size

256MB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR3

192bit

Memory Bus

128bit

432.0GB/s

Bandwidth

12.80GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

2

54

Compute Units

-

3456

Shading Units

16

216

TMUs

8

96

ROPs

4

-

Tensor Cores

-

54

RT Cores

-

128 KB per Array

L1 Cache

-

2 MB

L2 Cache

32 KB

Theoretical Performance

244.2 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

1.836 GPixel/s

549.5 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

3.672 GTexel/s

70.34 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

35.17 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

29.38 GFLOPS

1099 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

Navi 32

GPU Name

G86

Navi 32 XL (215-180000076)

GPU Variant

G86-300-A2

RDNA 3.0

Architecture

Tesla

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

5 nm

Process Size

80 nm

28.1 billion

Transistors

0.21 billion

346 mm²

Die Size

127 mm²

Board Design

245W

TDP

30W

550 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 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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