Radeon 8500 XT and Radeon RX 6650M XT - video card comparison
Radeon 8500 XT
Radeon RX 6650M XT
Architecture
Rage 7 (2001−2006)
RDNA 2 (2020−2022)
GPU code name
R250
Navi 23
Market segment
Desktop
Laptop
Release date
June 2002
January 2022
Interface
AGP 4x
PCIe 4.0 x8
Supplementary power connectors
None
None
Boost clock speed
-
2162 MHz
Core clock speed
300 MHz
-
Manufacturing process technology
150 nm
7 nm
Number of transistors
60 million
11,060 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
-
2048
Power consumption (TDP)
25 Watt
120 Watt
Texture fill rate
2.400
309.2
Memory type
DDR
GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount
128 MB
8 GB
Memory bus width
128 Bit
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
600 MBps
18000 MHz
Memory bandwidth
9.6 GB/s
256.0 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
No outputs
DirectX
8.1
12.0 Ultimate (12_2)
OpenCL
N/A
2.1
OpenGL
1.4
4.6
Shader Model
-
6.5
Vulkan
N/A
1.2