Radeon 8500 XT and GeForce GTX 1660 - video card comparison
Radeon 8500 XT
GeForce GTX 1660
Architecture
Rage 7 (2001−2006)
Turing (2018−2021)
GPU code name
R250
Turing TU116
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
June 2002
March 2019
Interface
AGP 4x
PCIe 3.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
None
1x 8-pin
Boost clock speed
-
1785 MHz
Core clock speed
300 MHz
1530 MHz
Manufacturing process technology
150 nm
12 nm
Number of transistors
60 million
6,600 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
-
1408
Power consumption (TDP)
25 Watt
120 Watt
Texture fill rate
2.400
157.1
Memory type
DDR
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
128 MB
6 GB
Memory bus width
128 Bit
192 Bit
Memory clock speed
600 MBps
8000 MHz
Memory bandwidth
9.6 GB/s
192.1 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort
HDMI
-
+
DirectX
8.1
12 (12_1)
CUDA
-
7.5
OpenCL
N/A
1.2
OpenGL
1.4
4.6
Shader Model
-
6.5
Vulkan
N/A
1.2.131