
Radeon 8500 and FireGL 8800 - video card comparison
Radeon 8500
FireGL 8800
Architecture
Rage 7 (2001−2006)
Rage 7 (2001−2006)
GPU code name
R200
R200
Market segment
Desktop
Workstation
Release date
August 2001
August 2001
Interface
AGP 4x
AGP 4x
Supplementary power connectors
None
None
Core clock speed
275 MHz
300 MHz
Manufacturing process technology
150 nm
150 nm
Number of transistors
60 million
60 million
Power consumption (TDP)
23 Watt
-
Texture fill rate
2.200
2.400
Memory type
DDR
DDR
Maximum RAM amount
64 MB
128 MB
Memory bus width
128 Bit
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
550 MHz
580 MHz
Memory bandwidth
8.8 GB/s
9.28 GB/s
Display Connectors
1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
1x DVI, 1x VGA
DirectX
8.1
8.1
OpenCL
N/A
N/A
OpenGL
1.4
1.4
Vulkan
N/A
N/A