Radeon 8500 and GeForce2 GTS - video card comparison
Radeon 8500
GeForce2 GTS
Architecture
Rage 7 (2001−2006)
Celsius (1999−2005)
GPU code name
R200
NV15 A5
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
August 2001
April 2000
Interface
AGP 4x
AGP 4x
Supplementary power connectors
None
None
Core clock speed
275 MHz
200 MHz
Manufacturing process technology
150 nm
150 nm
Number of transistors
60 million
25 million
Power consumption (TDP)
23 Watt
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Texture fill rate
2.200
1.600
Memory type
DDR
DDR
Maximum RAM amount
64 MB
32 MB
Memory bus width
128 Bit
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
550 MHz
332 MHz
Memory bandwidth
8.8 GB/s
5.312 GB/s
Display Connectors
1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
1x VGA
DirectX
8.1
7.0
OpenCL
N/A
N/A
OpenGL
1.4
1.2
Vulkan
N/A
N/A