GeForce 8500 GT and Radeon 7000 - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score GeForce 8500 GT vs Radeon 7000
GeForce 8500 GT
140
Radeon 7000
2
GeForce 8500 GT
Radeon 7000
Architecture
Tesla (2006−2010)
Rage 6 (2000−2007)
GPU code name
G86
RV100
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
April 2007
February 2001
Interface
PCIe 1.0 x16
AGP 4x
Supplementary power connectors
None
None
SLI options
+
-
Core clock speed
459 MHz
183 MHz
Floating-point performance
29.376 gflops
-
Manufacturing process technology
80 nm
180 nm
Number of transistors
210 million
30 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
16
-
Power consumption (TDP)
30 Watt
23 Watt
Texture fill rate
3.6 billion/sec
0.55
Memory type
GDDR3
DDR
Maximum RAM amount
256 MB
32 MB
Memory bus width
128 Bit
64 Bit
Memory clock speed
800 MHz
366 MHz
Memory bandwidth
12.8 GB/s
2.928 GB/s
Standard memory config per GPU
256 MB
-
Display Connectors
1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
DirectX
11.1 (10_0)
7.0
CUDA
1.1
-
OpenCL
1.1
N/A
OpenGL
2.1
1.3
Shader Model
4.0
-
Vulkan
N/A
N/A