Radeon 8500 and GeForce GT 420 OEM - video card comparison
Radeon 8500
GeForce GT 420 OEM
Architecture
Rage 7 (2001−2006)
Fermi (2010−2014)
GPU code name
R200
GF108
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
August 2001
September 2010
Interface
AGP 4x
PCIe 2.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
None
None
Core clock speed
275 MHz
700 MHz
Floating-point performance
-
134.4 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
150 nm
40 nm
Number of transistors
60 million
585 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
-
48
Power consumption (TDP)
23 Watt
50 Watt
Texture fill rate
2.200
2.800
Memory type
DDR
DDR3
Maximum RAM amount
64 MB
1 GB
Memory bus width
128 Bit
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
550 MHz
1800 MHz
Memory bandwidth
8.8 GB/s
28.8 GB/s
Display Connectors
1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x VGA
HDMI
-
+
DirectX
8.1
12 (11_0)
CUDA
-
2.1
OpenCL
N/A
1.1
OpenGL
1.4
4.6
Shader Model
-
5.1
Vulkan
N/A
N/A