Radeon 8500 XT and Radeon RX Vega 7 - video card comparison
Radeon 8500 XT
Radeon RX Vega 7
Architecture
Rage 7 (2001−2006)
Vega (2017−2021)
GPU code name
R250
Vega Raven Ridge
Market segment
Desktop
Laptop
Release date
June 2002
January 2020
Interface
AGP 4x
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Supplementary power connectors
None
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Boost clock speed
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1800 MHz
Core clock speed
300 MHz
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Manufacturing process technology
150 nm
7 nm
Number of transistors
60 million
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Pipelines / CUDA cores
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448
Power consumption (TDP)
25 Watt
15 Watt
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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Shared memory
-
+
Display Connectors
1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
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DirectX
8.1
12_1
OpenCL
N/A
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OpenGL
1.4
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Vulkan
N/A
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