Radeon 8500 and GeForce RTX 3060 - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score Radeon 8500 vs GeForce RTX 3060
Radeon 8500
6
GeForce RTX 3060
17598
Radeon 8500
GeForce RTX 3060
Architecture
Rage 7 (2001−2006)
Ampere (2020−2022)
GPU code name
R200
Ampere GA106
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
August 2001
January 2021
Interface
AGP 4x
PCIe 4.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
None
1x 12-pin
Boost clock speed
-
1777 MHz
Core clock speed
275 MHz
1320 MHz
Manufacturing process technology
150 nm
8 nm
Number of transistors
60 million
13,250 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
-
3584
Power consumption (TDP)
23 Watt
170 Watt
Texture fill rate
2.200
199.0
Memory type
DDR
GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount
64 MB
12 GB
Memory bus width
128 Bit
192 Bit
Memory clock speed
550 MHz
15000 MHz
Memory bandwidth
8.8 GB/s
360.0 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort
HDMI
-
+
DirectX
8.1
12 Ultimate (12_2)
CUDA
-
8.6
OpenCL
N/A
2.0
OpenGL
1.4
4.6
Shader Model
-
6.5
Vulkan
N/A
1.2