GeForce 8500 GT and Radeon RX Vega 7 - video card comparison
GeForce 8500 GT
Radeon RX Vega 7
Architecture
Tesla (2006−2010)
Vega (2017−2021)
GPU code name
G86
Vega Raven Ridge
Market segment
Desktop
Laptop
Release date
April 2007
January 2020
Interface
PCIe 1.0 x16
-
Supplementary power connectors
None
-
SLI options
+
-
Boost clock speed
-
1800 MHz
Core clock speed
459 MHz
-
Floating-point performance
29.376 gflops
-
Manufacturing process technology
80 nm
7 nm
Number of transistors
210 million
-
Pipelines / CUDA cores
16
448
Power consumption (TDP)
30 Watt
15 Watt
Texture fill rate
3.6 billion/sec
-
Memory type
GDDR3
-
Maximum RAM amount
256 MB
-
Memory bus width
128 Bit
-
Memory clock speed
800 MHz
-
Memory bandwidth
12.8 GB/s
-
Shared memory
-
+
Standard memory config per GPU
256 MB
-
Display Connectors
1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
-
DirectX
11.1 (10_0)
12_1
CUDA
1.1
-
OpenCL
1.1
-
OpenGL
2.1
-
Shader Model
4.0
-
Vulkan
N/A
-