GeForce 8500 GT and Radeon HD 5450 PCIe x1 - video card comparison
GeForce 8500 GT
Radeon HD 5450 PCIe x1
Architecture
Tesla (2006−2010)
TeraScale 2 (2009−2015)
GPU code name
G86
Cedar
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
April 2007
February 2010
Interface
PCIe 1.0 x16
PCIe 2.0 x1
Supplementary power connectors
None
-
SLI options
+
-
Core clock speed
459 MHz
650 MHz
Floating-point performance
29.376 gflops
104 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
80 nm
40 nm
Number of transistors
210 million
292 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
16
80
Power consumption (TDP)
30 Watt
19 Watt
Texture fill rate
3.6 billion/sec
5.200
Memory type
GDDR3
DDR3
Maximum RAM amount
256 MB
512 MB
Memory bus width
128 Bit
64 Bit
Memory clock speed
800 MHz
1000 MHz
Memory bandwidth
12.8 GB/s
8 GB/s
Standard memory config per GPU
256 MB
-
Display Connectors
1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x VGA
HDMI
-
+
DirectX
11.1 (10_0)
11.2 (11_0)
CUDA
1.1
-
OpenCL
1.1
1.2
OpenGL
2.1
4.4
Shader Model
4.0
5.0
Vulkan
N/A
N/A