HD Graphics 2500 and Radeon 8500 - video card comparison
HD Graphics 2500
Radeon 8500
Architecture
Gen. 7 Ivy Bridge (2011−2012)
Rage 7 (2001−2006)
GPU code name
Ivy Bridge GT1
R200
Market segment
Laptop
Desktop
Release date
April 2012
August 2001
Interface
PCIe 1.0 x16
AGP 4x
Supplementary power connectors
-
None
Boost clock speed
1150 MHz
-
Core clock speed
650 MHz
275 MHz
Floating-point performance
13.8 gflops
-
Manufacturing process technology
22 nm
150 nm
Number of transistors
392 million
60 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
6
-
Power consumption (TDP)
unknown
23 Watt
Texture fill rate
6.900
2.200
Memory type
System Shared
DDR
Maximum RAM amount
System Shared
64 MB
Memory bus width
64/128 Bit
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
System Shared
550 MHz
Memory bandwidth
-
8.8 GB/s
Shared memory
+
-
Display Connectors
No outputs
1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
DirectX
11.1 (11_0)
8.1
OpenCL
1.2
N/A
OpenGL
4.0
1.4
Shader Model
5.0
-
Vulkan
1.1.80
N/A