GeForce 8700M GT and Radeon 8500 XT - video card comparison
GeForce 8700M GT
Radeon 8500 XT
Architecture
G8x (2007−2008)
Rage 7 (2001−2006)
GPU code name
NB8E-SE
R250
Market segment
Laptop
Desktop
Release date
June 2007
June 2002
Interface
MXM-HE
AGP 4x
Supplementary power connectors
-
None
Core clock speed
625 MHz
300 MHz
Floating-point performance
80 gflops
-
Manufacturing process technology
80 nm
150 nm
Number of transistors
289 million
60 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
32
-
Power consumption (TDP)
29 Watt
25 Watt
Texture fill rate
10.00
2.400
Memory type
GDDR3
DDR
Maximum RAM amount
512 MB
128 MB
Memory bus width
128 Bit
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
800 MHz
600 MBps
Memory bandwidth
25.6 GB/s
9.6 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
No outputs
1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
DirectX
11.1 (10_0)
8.1
CUDA
1.1
-
OpenCL
1.1
N/A
OpenGL
3.3
1.4
Shader Model
4.0
-
Vulkan
N/A
N/A