Radeon 8500 X4 and Broadway - video card comparison

Radeon 8500 X4

Broadway

Architecture

Rage 7 (2001−2006)

TeraScale 2 (2009−2015)

GPU code name

R200

Broadway

Market segment

Desktop

Desktop

Release date

-

-

Interface

PCI-X

-

Core clock speed

250 MHz

-

Manufacturing process technology

150 nm

40 nm

Number of transistors

60 million

1,040 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

-

800

Power consumption (TDP)

92 Watt

-

Texture fill rate

2.000

-

Memory type

DDR

-

Maximum RAM amount

64 MB

-

Memory bus width

64 Bit

-

Memory clock speed

500 MBps

-

Memory bandwidth

4 GB/s

-

Display Connectors

2x DVI

-

DirectX

8.1

11.2 (11_0)

OpenCL

N/A

1.2

OpenGL

1.3

4.4

Shader Model

-

5.0

Vulkan

N/A

N/A