Radeon 8500 XT and RTX A2000 - video card comparison

Radeon 8500 XT

RTX A2000

Architecture

Rage 7 (2001−2006)

Ampere (2020−2022)

GPU code name

R250

GA106

Market segment

Desktop

Desktop

Release date

June 2002

August 2021

Interface

AGP 4x

PCIe 4.0 x16

Supplementary power connectors

None

None

Boost clock speed

-

1200 MHz

Core clock speed

300 MHz

-

Manufacturing process technology

150 nm

8 nm

Number of transistors

60 million

12,000 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

-

3328

Power consumption (TDP)

25 Watt

70 Watt

Texture fill rate

2.400

124.8

Memory type

DDR

GDDR6

Maximum RAM amount

128 MB

6 GB

Memory bus width

128 Bit

192 Bit

Memory clock speed

600 MBps

12 GB/s

Memory bandwidth

9.6 GB/s

288.0 GB/s

Display Connectors

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

4x mini-DisplayPort 1.4a

DirectX

8.1

12 Ultimate (12_2)

CUDA

-

8.6

OpenCL

N/A

3.0

OpenGL

1.4

4.6

Shader Model

-

6.7

Vulkan

N/A

1.3