GeForce 8500 GT and Radeon HD 2600 PRO - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score GeForce 8500 GT vs Radeon HD 2600 PRO
GeForce 8500 GT
140
Radeon HD 2600 PRO
217
GeForce 8500 GT
Radeon HD 2600 PRO
Architecture
Tesla (2006−2010)
TeraScale (2005−2013)
GPU code name
G86
RV630
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
April 2007
June 2007
Interface
PCIe 1.0 x16
PCIe 1.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
None
None
SLI options
+
-
Core clock speed
459 MHz
600 MHz
Floating-point performance
29.376 gflops
144 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
80 nm
65 nm
Number of transistors
210 million
390 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
16
120
Power consumption (TDP)
30 Watt
35 Watt
Texture fill rate
3.6 billion/sec
4.800
Memory type
GDDR3
DDR2
Maximum RAM amount
256 MB
512 MB
Memory bus width
128 Bit
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
800 MHz
1000 MHz
Memory bandwidth
12.8 GB/s
16 GB/s
Standard memory config per GPU
256 MB
-
Display Connectors
1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
2x DVI, 1x S-Video
DirectX
11.1 (10_0)
10.0 (10_0)
CUDA
1.1
-
OpenCL
1.1
N/A
OpenGL
2.1
3.3
Shader Model
4.0
4.0
Vulkan
N/A
N/A