GeForce GT 525M and Radeon 8500 XT - video card comparison
GeForce GT 525M
Radeon 8500 XT
Architecture
Fermi (2010−2014)
Rage 7 (2001−2006)
GPU code name
N12P-GE
R250
Market segment
Laptop
Desktop
Release date
January 2011
June 2002
Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
AGP 4x
Supplementary power connectors
None
None
Core clock speed
600 MHz
300 MHz
CUDA cores
96
-
Floating-point performance
230.4 gflops
-
Manufacturing process technology
40 nm
150 nm
Number of transistors
585 million
60 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
96
-
Power consumption (TDP)
23 Watt
25 Watt
Texture fill rate
9.6 billion/sec
2.400
Memory type
DDR3
DDR
Maximum RAM amount
1536 MB
128 MB
Memory bus width
128 Bit
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
900 MHz
600 MBps
Memory bandwidth
28.8 GB/s
9.6 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
No outputs
1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
DirectX
12 API
8.1
CUDA
+
-
OpenCL
1.1
N/A
OpenGL
4.5
1.4
Shader Model
5.1
-
Vulkan
N/A
N/A
Optimus
+
-