Radeon 8500 and PG506-232 - video card comparison

Radeon 8500

PG506-232

Architecture

Rage 7 (2001−2006)

Ampere (2020−2022)

GPU code name

R200

GA100

Market segment

Desktop

Desktop

Release date

August 2001

April 2021

Interface

AGP 4x

PCIe 4.0 x16

Supplementary power connectors

None

8-pin EPS

Boost clock speed

-

1440 MHz

Core clock speed

275 MHz

-

Manufacturing process technology

150 nm

7 nm

Number of transistors

60 million

54,200 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

-

3584

Power consumption (TDP)

23 Watt

165 Watt

Texture fill rate

2.200

322.6

Memory type

DDR

HBM2

Maximum RAM amount

64 MB

24 GB

Memory bus width

128 Bit

3072 Bit

Memory clock speed

550 MHz

2.4 GB/s

Memory bandwidth

8.8 GB/s

933.1 GB/s

Display Connectors

1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video

No outputs

DirectX

8.1

N/A

CUDA

-

8.0

OpenCL

N/A

3.0

OpenGL

1.4

N/A

Shader Model

-

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

N/A