AMD Radeon R9 290 vs NVIDIA GeForce 8500 GT

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AMD Radeon R9 290 NVIDIA GeForce 8500 GT

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 290 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 R9 290 's Advantages

Released 6 years and 7 months late

Larger VRAM bandwidth (320.0GB/s vs 12.80GB/s)

2544 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce 8500 GT 's Advantages

Lower TDP (30W vs 275W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 290 +16620%

4.849 TFLOPS

GeForce 8500 GT

0.029 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 290

VS

GeForce 8500 GT

Graphics Card

Nov 2013

Release Date

Apr 2007

Volcanic Islands

Generation

GeForce 8

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 1.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

1250 MHz

Memory Clock

400 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

256MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

512bit

Memory Bus

128bit

320.0GB/s

Bandwidth

12.80GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

2

40

Compute Units

-

2560

Shading Units

16

160

TMUs

8

64

ROPs

4

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

1024 KB

L2 Cache

32 KB

Theoretical Performance

60.61 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

1.836 GPixel/s

151.5 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

3.672 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

4.849 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

29.38 GFLOPS

606.1 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

Hawaii

GPU Name

G86

Hawaii PRO (215-0852020)

GPU Variant

G86-300-A2

GCN 2.0

Architecture

Tesla

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

80 nm

6.2 billion

Transistors

0.21 billion

438 mm²

Die Size

127 mm²

Board Design

275W

TDP

30W

600 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

2x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 1x DisplayPort 1.2

Outputs

1x DVI 1x VGA 1x S-Video

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

11.1 (10_0)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3

2.0

OpenCL

1.1

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

1.1

6.3

Shader Model

4.0

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