Radeon 8500 and GeForce 7200 GS - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score Radeon 8500 vs GeForce 7200 GS
Radeon 8500
6
GeForce 7200 GS
24
Radeon 8500
GeForce 7200 GS
Architecture
Rage 7 (2001−2006)
Curie (2003−2013)
GPU code name
R200
G72
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
August 2001
January 2006
Interface
AGP 4x
PCIe 1.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
None
None
Core clock speed
275 MHz
450 MHz
Manufacturing process technology
150 nm
90 nm
Number of transistors
60 million
112 million
Power consumption (TDP)
23 Watt
-
Texture fill rate
2.200
1.800
Memory type
DDR
DDR2
Maximum RAM amount
64 MB
128 MB
Memory bus width
128 Bit
64 Bit
Memory clock speed
550 MHz
668 MHz
Memory bandwidth
8.8 GB/s
5.344 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