Radeon 8500 and GeForce 6200 PCI - video card comparison
Radeon 8500
GeForce 6200 PCI
Architecture
Rage 7 (2001−2006)
Curie (2003−2013)
GPU code name
R200
NV44 A2
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
August 2001
January 2008
Interface
AGP 4x
PCI
Supplementary power connectors
None
None
Core clock speed
275 MHz
280 MHz
Manufacturing process technology
150 nm
110 nm
Number of transistors
60 million
75 million
Power consumption (TDP)
23 Watt
-
Texture fill rate
2.200
1.120
Memory type
DDR
DDR2
Maximum RAM amount
64 MB
256 MB
Memory bus width
128 Bit
64 Bit
Memory clock speed
550 MHz
400 MHz
Memory bandwidth
8.8 GB/s
3.2 GB/s
Display Connectors
1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
DirectX
8.1
9.0c (9_3)
OpenCL
N/A
N/A
OpenGL
1.4
2.1
Shader Model
-
3.0
Vulkan
N/A
N/A