GeForce 8500 GT and Radeon R4 Graphics - video card comparison
GeForce 8500 GT
Radeon R4 Graphics
Architecture
Tesla (2006−2010)
GCN 2.0 (2013−2017)
GPU code name
G86
Beema
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
April 2007
June 2014
Interface
PCIe 1.0 x16
IGP
Supplementary power connectors
None
-
SLI options
+
-
Core clock speed
459 MHz
800 MHz
Floating-point performance
29.376 gflops
204.8 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
80 nm
28 nm
Number of transistors
210 million
930 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
16
128
Power consumption (TDP)
30 Watt
15 Watt
Texture fill rate
3.6 billion/sec
6.400
Memory type
GDDR3
System Shared
Maximum RAM amount
256 MB
System Shared
Memory bus width
128 Bit
System Shared
Memory clock speed
800 MHz
System Shared
Memory bandwidth
12.8 GB/s
-
Standard memory config per GPU
256 MB
-
Display Connectors
1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
No outputs
DirectX
11.1 (10_0)
12 (12_0)
CUDA
1.1
-
OpenCL
1.1
2.0
OpenGL
2.1
4.6
Shader Model
4.0
6.3
Vulkan
N/A
1.2.131