GeForce 8500 GT and Radeon RX 6500 XT - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score GeForce 8500 GT vs Radeon RX 6500 XT
GeForce 8500 GT
140
Radeon RX 6500 XT
9825
GeForce 8500 GT
Radeon RX 6500 XT
Architecture
Tesla (2006−2010)
Navi / RDNA2 (2020−2022)
GPU code name
G86
Navi 24
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
April 2007
January 2022
Interface
PCIe 1.0 x16
PCIe 4.0 x4
Supplementary power connectors
None
1x 6-pin
SLI options
+
-
Boost clock speed
-
2815 MHz
Core clock speed
459 MHz
2610 MHz
Floating-point performance
29.376 gflops
-
Manufacturing process technology
80 nm
7 nm
Number of transistors
210 million
5,400 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
16
1024
Power consumption (TDP)
30 Watt
107 Watt
Texture fill rate
3.6 billion/sec
180.2
Memory type
GDDR3
GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount
256 MB
8 GB
Memory bus width
128 Bit
64 Bit
Memory clock speed
800 MHz
18000 MHz
Memory bandwidth
12.8 GB/s
143.9 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Standard memory config per GPU
256 MB
-
Display Connectors
1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
1x HDMI 2.1, 1x DisplayPort 1.4a
HDMI
-
+
DirectX
11.1 (10_0)
12 Ultimate (12_2)
CUDA
1.1
-
OpenCL
1.1
2.2
OpenGL
2.1
4.6
Shader Model
4.0
6.6
Vulkan
N/A
1.3