GeForce 8500 GT and Mobility Radeon 9000 - video card comparison
GeForce 8500 GT
Mobility Radeon 9000
Architecture
Tesla (2006−2010)
Rage 7 (2001−2006)
GPU code name
G86
M9
Market segment
Desktop
Laptop
Release date
April 2007
September 2002
Interface
PCIe 1.0 x16
AGP 4x
Supplementary power connectors
None
-
SLI options
+
-
Boost clock speed
-
240 MHz
Core clock speed
459 MHz
1 MHz
Floating-point performance
29.376 gflops
-
Manufacturing process technology
80 nm
150 nm
Number of transistors
210 million
36 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
16
5
Power consumption (TDP)
30 Watt
-
Texture fill rate
3.6 billion/sec
0.96
Memory type
GDDR3
DDR
Maximum RAM amount
256 MB
128 MB
Memory bus width
128 Bit
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
800 MHz
400 MHz
Memory bandwidth
12.8 GB/s
3.2 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Standard memory config per GPU
256 MB
-
Display Connectors
1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
No outputs
DirectX
11.1 (10_0)
8.1
CUDA
1.1
-
OpenCL
1.1
N/A
OpenGL
2.1
1.4
Shader Model
4.0
-
Vulkan
N/A
N/A