ATI Radeon HD 4890 vs NVIDIA GeForce 8500 GT

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ATI Radeon HD 4890 NVIDIA GeForce 8500 GT

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 4890 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 HD 4890 's Advantages

Released 2 years late

More VRAM (1024GB vs 256GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (124.8GB/s vs 12.80GB/s)

784 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce 8500 GT 's Advantages

Lower TDP (30W vs 190W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 4890 +4589%

1.36 TFLOPS

GeForce 8500 GT

0.029 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 4890

VS

GeForce 8500 GT

Graphics Card

Apr 2009

Release Date

Apr 2007

Radeon R700

Generation

GeForce 8

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 1.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

975 MHz

Memory Clock

400 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

256MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

124.8GB/s

Bandwidth

12.80GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

2

10

Compute Units

-

800

Shading Units

16

40

TMUs

8

16

ROPs

4

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

256 KB

L2 Cache

32 KB

Theoretical Performance

13.60 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

1.836 GPixel/s

34.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

3.672 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

1360 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

29.38 GFLOPS

272.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

RV790

GPU Name

G86

RV790 XT (215-0758016)

GPU Variant

G86-300-A2

TeraScale

Architecture

Tesla

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

55 nm

Process Size

80 nm

0.959 billion

Transistors

0.21 billion

282 mm²

Die Size

127 mm²

Board Design

190W

TDP

30W

450 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

2x DVI 1x S-Video

Outputs

1x DVI 1x VGA 1x S-Video

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

10.1 (10_1)

DirectX

11.1 (10_0)

3.3

OpenGL

3.3

1.1

OpenCL

1.1

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

1.1

4.1

Shader Model

4.0

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