AMD Radeon RX 5700 XT vs NVIDIA GeForce 8500 GT
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM Radeon RX 5700 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 5700 XT 's Advantages
Released 12 years and 3 months late
Boost Clock1905MHz
More VRAM (8GB vs 256GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (448.0GB/s vs 12.80GB/s)
2544 additional rendering cores
NVIDIA GeForce 8500 GT 's Advantages
Lower TDP (30W vs 225W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Radeon RX 5700 XT
+33534%
9.754 TFLOPS
GeForce 8500 GT
0.029 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Jul 2019
Release Date
Apr 2007
Navi
Generation
GeForce 8
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 4.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 1.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1605 MHz
Base Clock
-
1905 MHz
Boost Clock
-
1750 MHz
Memory Clock
400 MHz
Memory
8GB
Memory Size
256MB
GDDR6
Memory Type
GDDR3
256bit
Memory Bus
128bit
448.0GB/s
Bandwidth
12.80GB/s
Render Config
40
Compute Units
-
-
SM Count
2
2560
Shading Units
16
160
TMUs
8
64
ROPs
4
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
4 MB
L2 Cache
32 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
121.9 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
1.836 GPixel/s
304.8 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
3.672 GTexel/s
19.51 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
-
9.754 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
29.38 GFLOPS
609.6 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
-
Board Design
225W
TDP
30W
550 W
Suggested PSU
200 W
1x HDMI 2.1
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
Outputs
1x DVI
1x VGA
1x S-Video
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
Navi 10
GPU Name
G86
Navi 10 XT
(215-0917210)
GPU Variant
G86-300-A2
RDNA 1.0
Architecture
Tesla
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
7 nm
Process Size
80 nm
10.3 billion
Transistors
0.21 billion
251 mm²
Die Size
127 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (12_1)
DirectX
11.1 (10_0)
4.6
OpenGL
3.3
2.1
OpenCL
1.1
1.3
Vulkan
N/A
-
CUDA
1.1
6.5
Shader Model
4.0
