Radeon 8500 and GeForce 7300 GT AGP - video card comparison
Radeon 8500
GeForce 7300 GT AGP
Architecture
Rage 7 (2001−2006)
Curie (2003−2013)
GPU code name
R200
G73
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
August 2001
May 2006
Interface
AGP 4x
AGP 8x
Supplementary power connectors
None
None
Core clock speed
275 MHz
350 MHz
Manufacturing process technology
150 nm
90 nm
Number of transistors
60 million
177 million
Power consumption (TDP)
23 Watt
24 Watt
Texture fill rate
2.200
1.400
Memory type
DDR
DDR2
Maximum RAM amount
64 MB
128 MB
Memory bus width
128 Bit
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
550 MHz
650 MHz
Memory bandwidth
8.8 GB/s
10.4 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