NVIDIA GeForce 8500 GT
VS
AMD Radeon R9 M370X
NVIDIA GeForce 8500 GT
VS
AMD Radeon R9 M370X

General info

The main nomenclature characteristics of video cards NVIDIA GeForce 8500 GT and AMD Radeon R9 M370X. Pay attention to the position in the performance rating to choose the best one.

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Place in performance rating
559
0.46
Value for money (0-100)
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Tesla
Architecture
GCN 1.0
G86
Code name
Cape Verde
Desktop
Type
Laptop
17 April 2007 (14 years ago)
Release date
19 May 2015 (6 years ago)
$129
Launch price (MSRP)
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$215 (1.7x MSRP)
Price now
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G86
GPU code name
Cape Verde
Desktop
Market segment
Laptop

Technical specs

Choose the best graphics card between NVIDIA GeForce 8500 GT and AMD Radeon R9 M370X based on manufacturing process, power consumption, and base frequency and overclocking potential of the GPU.

16
Pipelines
640
459 MHz
Core clock speed
800 MHz
210 million
Transistor count
1500 Million
80 nm
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
30 Watt
Power consumption (TDP)
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3.6 billion/sec
Texture fill rate
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29.376 gflops
Floating-point performance
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16
Pipelines / CUDA cores
640
210 million
Number of transistors
1500 Million
30 Watt
Thermal design power (TDP)
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Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Additional technical information, does not greatly affect the performance rating when comparing the NVIDIA GeForce 8500 GT and AMD Radeon R9 M370X.

PCIe 1.0 x16
Interface
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229 mm
Length
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None
Supplementary power connectors
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Laptop size
medium sized
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SLI options
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Memory

Graphics card memory is used to store calculations. Modern software and 3D games require more and faster memory. The higher these parameters, the more productive the chip. The difference in these characteristics NVIDIA GeForce 8500 GT and AMD Radeon R9 M370X can be seen in this section.

GDDR3
Memory type
GDDR5
256 MB
Maximum RAM amount
2 GB
128 Bit
Memory bus width
128 Bit
800 MHz
Memory clock speed
4500 MHz
12.8 GB/s
Memory bandwidth
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Shared memory
-
256 MB
Standard memory config per GPU
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Video outputs and ports

The difference between the interfaces and ports of video cards NVIDIA GeForce 8500 GT and AMD Radeon R9 M370X, the size and number of monitors.

1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
Display Connectors
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Technologies

The difference between NVIDIA GeForce 8500 GT and AMD Radeon R9 M370X is the additional functionality.

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DirectCompute 5.0
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API support

The difference in supported APIs is NVIDIA GeForce 8500 GT and AMD Radeon R9 M370X. Hardware support (API) is not considered in synthetic benchmarks and performance tests.

11.1 (10_0)
DirectX
DirectX 12 (FL 11_1), Shader 5.0
2.1
OpenGL
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Gaming performance

Select form the list the required name to identify gaming performance for NVIDIA GeForce 8500 GT and AMD Radeon R9 M370X graphics cards. The result shows how fast the game will run and whether it can be run on this computer. The different monitor resolutions – from low to 4K – are used for testing. Find out is the NVIDIA GeForce 8500 GT or AMD Radeon R9 M370X good for gaming.


low
1280x720
med.
1920x1080
high
1920x1080
ultra
1920x1080
QHD
2560x1440
4K
3840x2160
Horizon Zero Dawn (2020) NVIDIA GeForce 8500 GT
AMD Radeon R9 M370X
Death Stranding (2020) NVIDIA GeForce 8500 GT
AMD Radeon R9 M370X
F1 2020 (2020) NVIDIA GeForce 8500 GT
AMD Radeon R9 M370X
Gears Tactics (2020) NVIDIA GeForce 8500 GT
AMD Radeon R9 M370X
Doom Eternal (2020) NVIDIA GeForce 8500 GT
AMD Radeon R9 M370X
Legend
5 Stutter – Insufficient data. Similar graphics cards stutter, the game is likely to show a low frame rate. There will be some lags.
May Stutter – Insufficient data. Similar graphics cards stutter, the game is likely to show a low frame rate. There will be some lags.
30 Fluent – According to the results of benchmarks the game should run at 25 frames per second (fps)
40 Fluent – According to the results of benchmarks the game should run at 35 frames per second (fps)
60 Fluent – According to the results of benchmarks the game should run at 58 frames per second (fps)
May Run Fluently – Insufficient data. Similar graphics cards show a smooth frame rate, comfortable for the game.
? Uncertain – Graphics cards testing has shown that a slower card can provide a high and stable frame rate for the same operation.
Uncertain – The work of the video card in the game is still being studied. Interpolation among analogs is not possible.
The value depicts the average frame rate. Hovering over the value, you can get individual results.

Advantages of NVIDIA GeForce 8500 GT

More maximum RAM amount (256 MB vs 2 GB)

Advantages of AMD Radeon R9 M370X

5.89% faster in synthetic tests

More pipelines (640 vs 16)

Finer manufacturing process technology (28 nm vs 80 nm)

So, NVIDIA GeForce 8500 GT or AMD Radeon R9 M370X?

Judging by the results of synthetic and gaming tests, we recommend AMD Radeon R9 M370X .

NVIDIA GeForce 8500 GT versus AMD Radeon R9 M370X performance benchmarks comparison

User rating

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