GeForce 6500 and Radeon R4 Graphics - video card comparison
GeForce 6500
Radeon R4 Graphics
Architecture
Curie (2003−2013)
GCN 2.0 (2013−2017)
GPU code name
NV44 A2
Beema
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
October 2005
June 2014
Interface
PCIe 1.0 x16
IGP
Core clock speed
400 MHz
800 MHz
Floating-point performance
-
204.8 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
110 nm
28 nm
Number of transistors
75 million
930 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
-
128
Power consumption (TDP)
-
15 Watt
Texture fill rate
1.600
6.400
Memory type
DDR2
System Shared
Maximum RAM amount
128 MB
System Shared
Memory bus width
128 Bit
System Shared
Memory clock speed
532 MHz
System Shared
Memory bandwidth
8.512 GB/s
-
Display Connectors
1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
No outputs
DirectX
9.0c (9_3)
12 (12_0)
OpenCL
N/A
2.0
OpenGL
2.1
4.6
Shader Model
3.0
6.3
Vulkan
N/A
1.2.131