Radeon 8500 XT and GeForce MX250 - video card comparison
Radeon 8500 XT
GeForce MX250
Architecture
Rage 7 (2001−2006)
Pascal (2016−2021)
GPU code name
R250
N17S-G2
Market segment
Desktop
Laptop
Release date
June 2002
February 2019
Interface
AGP 4x
PCIe 3.0 x4
Supplementary power connectors
None
None
Boost clock speed
-
1582 MHz
Core clock speed
300 MHz
1518 MHz
Manufacturing process technology
150 nm
14 nm
Number of transistors
60 million
1,800 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
-
384
Power consumption (TDP)
25 Watt
10/25 Watt
Texture fill rate
2.400
24.91
Memory type
DDR
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
128 MB
4 GB
Memory bus width
128 Bit
64 Bit
Memory clock speed
600 MBps
7000 MHz
Memory bandwidth
9.6 GB/s
48.06 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
No outputs
DirectX
8.1
12 (12_1)
CUDA
-
6.1
OpenCL
N/A
1.2
OpenGL
1.4
4.6
Shader Model
-
6.4
Vulkan
N/A
1.2