GeForce 6800 GT and Radeon 8500 - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score GeForce 6800 GT vs Radeon 8500
GeForce 6800 GT
146
Radeon 8500
6
GeForce 6800 GT
Radeon 8500
Architecture
Curie (2003−2013)
Rage 7 (2001−2006)
GPU code name
NV45
R200
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
June 2004
August 2001
Interface
PCIe 1.0 x16
AGP 4x
Supplementary power connectors
1x 6-pin
None
Core clock speed
350 MHz
275 MHz
Manufacturing process technology
130 nm
150 nm
Number of transistors
222 million
60 million
Power consumption (TDP)
67 Watt
23 Watt
Texture fill rate
5.600
2.200
Memory type
GDDR3
DDR
Maximum RAM amount
256 MB
64 MB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
1000 MHz
550 MHz
Memory bandwidth
32 GB/s
8.8 GB/s
Display Connectors
2x DVI, 1x S-Video
1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
DirectX
9.0c (9_3)
8.1
OpenCL
N/A
N/A
OpenGL
2.1
1.4
Shader Model
3.0
-
Vulkan
N/A
N/A