7/3/2023 0 Comments Rx 480 fp64It could have been much more than just another midrange GPU with all that untapped horsepower. There have been plenty of other AMD or ATI GPUs with terrible driver support (the RX 5000 series was particularly buggy for some), but the 8500 is easily the most heartbreaking. The fact that the 8500 had so much potential is what makes this situation even more depressing. Unfortunately, this was not enough to turn the 8500 into a true competitor against Nvidia’s flagship GPUs. The situation was so severe that ATI promised it would be releasing new drivers as quickly as every two weeks. Theoretically, if the 8500 had better software level optimization for games, it would have been able to stand toe to toe with the Ti 500. The 8500 did quite well in synthetic benchmarks like 3DMark 2001, where it beat the Ti 500, but in actual games, it fell noticeably behind. Ultimately, bad drivers doomed the 8500 and ATI’s desire to beat Nvidia. It was not quite the flagship reviewers were hoping for, as Anandtech noted that even at $250, the 8500 could only match Nvidia’s GeForce3 Ti 200, which cost under $200. On paper, the 8500 should have beaten the Ti 500 by at least a small margin, if not a noticeably large one. Well, in the actual benchmarks, the 8500 was significantly behind the Ti 500, and sometimes it was just half as fast. ![]() Here’s how to get your free 40% performance boost from AMD This AMD GPU from 2021 beats the RX 7900 XTX and the RTX 4080 AMD is letting Nvidia win, and it needs to step it up before it’s too late
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