Radeon 8500 XT and CMP 170HX - video card comparison

Radeon 8500 XT

CMP 170HX

Architecture

Rage 7 (2001−2006)

Ampere (2020−2022)

GPU code name

R250

GA100

Market segment

Desktop

Desktop

Release date

June 2002

September 2021

Interface

AGP 4x

PCIe 4.0 x4

Supplementary power connectors

None

2x 8-pin

Boost clock speed

-

1410 MHz

Core clock speed

300 MHz

-

Manufacturing process technology

150 nm

7 nm

Number of transistors

60 million

54,200 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

-

4480

Power consumption (TDP)

25 Watt

250 Watt

Texture fill rate

2.400

394.8

Memory type

DDR

HBM2e

Maximum RAM amount

128 MB

16 GB

Memory bus width

128 Bit

4096 Bit

Memory clock speed

600 MBps

2.9 GB/s

Memory bandwidth

9.6 GB/s

1,493 GB/s

Display Connectors

1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video

No outputs

DirectX

8.1

N/A

CUDA

-

8.0

OpenCL

N/A

3.0

OpenGL

1.4

N/A

Shader Model

-

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

N/A