GeForce 8500 GT and Radeon 9550 - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score GeForce 8500 GT vs Radeon 9550
GeForce 8500 GT
140
Radeon 9550
35
GeForce 8500 GT
Radeon 9550
Architecture
Tesla (2006−2010)
Rage 8 (2002−2006)
GPU code name
G86
RV350
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
April 2007
October 2003
Interface
PCIe 1.0 x16
AGP 8x
Supplementary power connectors
None
None
SLI options
+
-
Core clock speed
459 MHz
250 MHz
Floating-point performance
29.376 gflops
-
Manufacturing process technology
80 nm
130 nm
Number of transistors
210 million
60 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
16
-
Power consumption (TDP)
30 Watt
-
Texture fill rate
3.6 billion/sec
1.000
Memory type
GDDR3
DDR
Maximum RAM amount
256 MB
64 MB
Memory bus width
128 Bit
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
800 MHz
400 MHz
Memory bandwidth
12.8 GB/s
6.4 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)
9.0 (9_0)
CUDA
1.1
-
OpenCL
1.1
N/A
OpenGL
2.1
2.0
Shader Model
4.0
-
Vulkan
N/A
N/A