GeForce 8500 GT and Radeon Vega 7 - video card comparison

GeForce 8500 GT

Radeon Vega 7

Architecture

Tesla (2006−2010)

GCN 5.1 (2018−2021)

GPU code name

G86

Cezanne

Market segment

Desktop

Desktop

Release date

April 2007

April 2021

Interface

PCIe 1.0 x16

IGP

Supplementary power connectors

None

None

SLI options

+

-

Boost clock speed

-

1900 MHz

Core clock speed

459 MHz

-

Floating-point performance

29.376 gflops

-

Manufacturing process technology

80 nm

7 nm

Number of transistors

210 million

9,800 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

16

448

Power consumption (TDP)

30 Watt

45 Watt

Texture fill rate

3.6 billion/sec

53.20

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_1)

CUDA

1.1

-

OpenCL

1.1

2.1

OpenGL

2.1

4.6

Shader Model

4.0

6.4

Vulkan

N/A

1.2