Radeon 8500 XT and GeForce RTX 4070 Max-Q - video card comparison

Radeon 8500 XT

GeForce RTX 4070 Max-Q

Architecture

Rage 7 (2001−2006)

Ada Lovelace

GPU code name

R250

AD106

Market segment

Desktop

Release date

June 2002

January 2023

Interface

AGP 4x

PCIe 4.0 x16

Supplementary power connectors

None

Boost clock speed

1230 MHz

Core clock speed

300 MHz

Manufacturing process technology

150 nm

4 nm

Number of transistors

60 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

4608

Power consumption (TDP)

25 Watt

35 Watt

Texture fill rate

2.400

177.1

Memory type

DDR

GDDR6

Maximum RAM amount

128 MB

8 GB

Memory bus width

128 Bit

Memory clock speed

600 MBps

14 GB/s

Memory bandwidth

9.6 GB/s

224.0 GB/s

Display Connectors

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

Portable Device Dependent

DirectX

8.1

12 Ultimate (12_2)

CUDA

8.9

OpenCL

N/A

3.0

OpenGL

1.4

4.6

Shader Model

6.7

Vulkan

N/A

1.3