GeForce 8500 GT and Radeon HD 5550 - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score GeForce 8500 GT vs Radeon HD 5550
GeForce 8500 GT
140
Radeon HD 5550
387
GeForce 8500 GT
Radeon HD 5550
Architecture
Tesla (2006−2010)
TeraScale 2 (2009−2015)
GPU code name
G86
Redwood
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
April 2007
February 2010
Interface
PCIe 1.0 x16
PCIe 2.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
None
None
SLI options
+
-
Core clock speed
459 MHz
550 MHz
Floating-point performance
29.376 gflops
352.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
80 nm
40 nm
Number of transistors
210 million
627 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
16
320
Power consumption (TDP)
30 Watt
39 Watt
Texture fill rate
3.6 billion/sec
8.800
Memory type
GDDR3
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
256 MB
2 GB
Memory bus width
128 Bit
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
800 MHz
3200 MHz
Memory bandwidth
12.8 GB/s
51.2 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