GeForce 6800 LE and Radeon 8500 - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score GeForce 6800 LE vs Radeon 8500
GeForce 6800 LE
112
Radeon 8500
6
GeForce 6800 LE
Radeon 8500
Architecture
Curie (2003−2013)
Rage 7 (2001−2006)
GPU code name
NV40
R200
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
July 2004
August 2001
Interface
AGP 8x
AGP 4x
Supplementary power connectors
1x Molex
None
Core clock speed
300 MHz
275 MHz
Manufacturing process technology
130 nm
150 nm
Number of transistors
222 million
60 million
Power consumption (TDP)
-
23 Watt
Texture fill rate
2.400
2.200
Memory type
DDR
DDR
Maximum RAM amount
128 MB
64 MB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
700 MHz
550 MHz
Memory bandwidth
22.4 GB/s
8.8 GB/s
Display Connectors
1x DVI, 1x VGA, 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