ATI Radeon HD 5830 vs NVIDIA GeForce 8500 GT
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 5830 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 5830 's Advantages
Released 2 years and 10 months late
More VRAM (1024GB vs 256GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (128.0GB/s vs 12.80GB/s)
1104 additional rendering cores
NVIDIA GeForce 8500 GT 's Advantages
Lower TDP (30W vs 175W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Radeon HD 5830
+6079%
1.792 TFLOPS
GeForce 8500 GT
0.029 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Feb 2010
Release Date
Apr 2007
Evergreen
Generation
GeForce 8
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 1.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
-
-
1000 MHz
Memory Clock
400 MHz
Memory
1024MB
Memory Size
256MB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR3
256bit
Memory Bus
128bit
128.0GB/s
Bandwidth
12.80GB/s
Render Config
14
Compute Units
-
-
SM Count
2
1120
Shading Units
16
56
TMUs
8
16
ROPs
4
-
-
-
-
-
-
8 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
-
512 KB
L2 Cache
32 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
12.80 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
1.836 GPixel/s
44.80 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
3.672 GTexel/s
-
-
-
1.792 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
29.38 GFLOPS
358.4 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
-
Board Design
175W
TDP
30W
450 W
Suggested PSU
200 W
2x DVI
1x HDMI 1.3a
1x DisplayPort 1.1
Outputs
1x DVI
1x VGA
1x S-Video
2x 6-pin
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
Cypress
GPU Name
G86
Cypress LE
(215-0735047)
GPU Variant
G86-300-A2
TeraScale 2
Architecture
Tesla
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
40 nm
Process Size
80 nm
2.154 billion
Transistors
0.21 billion
334 mm²
Die Size
127 mm²
Graphics Features
11.2 (11_0)
DirectX
11.1 (10_0)
4.4
OpenGL
3.3
1.2
OpenCL
1.1
N/A
Vulkan
N/A
-
CUDA
1.1
5.0
Shader Model
4.0
