Radeon 8500 XT and A2 - video card comparison
Radeon 8500 XT
A2
Architecture
Rage 7 (2001−2006)
Ampere (2020−2022)
GPU code name
R250
GA107
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
June 2002
November 2021
Interface
AGP 4x
PCIe 4.0 x8
Supplementary power connectors
None
None
Boost clock speed
-
1770 MHz
Core clock speed
300 MHz
-
Manufacturing process technology
150 nm
8 nm
Number of transistors
60 million
-
Pipelines / CUDA cores
-
1280
Power consumption (TDP)
25 Watt
60 Watt
Texture fill rate
2.400
70.80
Memory type
DDR
GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount
128 MB
16 GB
Memory bus width
128 Bit
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
600 MBps
12.5 GB/s
Memory bandwidth
9.6 GB/s
200.1 GB/s
Display Connectors
1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
No outputs
DirectX
8.1
12 Ultimate (12_2)
CUDA
-
8.6
OpenCL
N/A
3.0
OpenGL
1.4
4.6
Shader Model
-
6.6
Vulkan
N/A
1.2