Radeon 8500 and GeForce3 Ti500 - video card comparison
Radeon 8500
GeForce3 Ti500
Architecture
Rage 7 (2001−2006)
Kelvin (2001−2003)
GPU code name
R200
NV20 A5
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
August 2001
October 2001
Interface
AGP 4x
AGP 4x
Supplementary power connectors
None
None
Core clock speed
275 MHz
240 MHz
Manufacturing process technology
150 nm
150 nm
Number of transistors
60 million
57 million
Power consumption (TDP)
23 Watt
-
Texture fill rate
2.200
1.920
Memory type
DDR
DDR
Maximum RAM amount
64 MB
64 MB
Memory bus width
128 Bit
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
550 MHz
500 MHz
Memory bandwidth
8.8 GB/s
8 GB/s
Display Connectors
1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
DirectX
8.1
8.0
OpenCL
N/A
N/A
OpenGL
1.4
1.3
Vulkan
N/A
N/A