Radeon 8500 XT and RSX-90nm - video card comparison

Radeon 8500 XT

RSX-90nm

Architecture

Rage 7 (2001−2006)

Curie (2003−2013)

GPU code name

R250

RSX-90nm

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

90 nm

Number of transistors

60 million

300 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

N/A

OpenCL

N/A

N/A

OpenGL

1.4

ES 1.1

Vulkan

N/A

N/A