Radeon 8500 XT and R300 - video card comparison

Radeon 8500 XT

R300

Architecture

Rage 7 (2001−2006)

R300

GPU code name

R250

R300

Market segment

Desktop

Desktop

Release date

June 2002

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Interface

AGP 4x

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Supplementary power connectors

None

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Core clock speed

300 MHz

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Manufacturing process technology

150 nm

150 nm

Number of transistors

60 million

110 million

Power consumption (TDP)

25 Watt

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Texture fill rate

2.400

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Memory type

DDR

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Maximum RAM amount

128 MB

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Memory bus width

128 Bit

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Memory clock speed

600 MBps

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Memory bandwidth

9.6 GB/s

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Display Connectors

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

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DirectX

8.1

9.0 (9_0)

OpenCL

N/A

N/A

OpenGL

1.4

2.0

Vulkan

N/A

N/A