GeForce 8500 GT and Radeon X700 - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score GeForce 8500 GT vs Radeon X700
GeForce 8500 GT
140
Radeon X700
74
GeForce 8500 GT
Radeon X700
Architecture
Tesla (2006−2010)
R400 (2004−2008)
GPU code name
G86
RV410
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
April 2007
September 2004
Interface
PCIe 1.0 x16
PCIe 1.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
None
None
SLI options
+
-
Core clock speed
459 MHz
400 MHz
Floating-point performance
29.376 gflops
-
Manufacturing process technology
80 nm
110 nm
Number of transistors
210 million
120 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
16
-
Power consumption (TDP)
30 Watt
44 Watt
Texture fill rate
3.6 billion/sec
3.200
Memory type
GDDR3
DDR
Maximum RAM amount
256 MB
128 MB
Memory bus width
128 Bit
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
800 MHz
500 MHz
Memory bandwidth
12.8 GB/s
8 GB/s
Standard memory config per GPU
256 MB
-
Display Connectors
1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
DirectX
11.1 (10_0)
9.0b (9_2)
CUDA
1.1
-
OpenCL
1.1
N/A
OpenGL
2.1
2.0
Shader Model
4.0
-
Vulkan
N/A
N/A