Radeon 8500 and R680 - video card comparison

Radeon 8500

R680

Architecture

Rage 7 (2001−2006)

TeraScale (2005−2013)

GPU code name

R200

R680

Market segment

Desktop

Desktop

Release date

August 2001

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Interface

AGP 4x

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Supplementary power connectors

None

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Core clock speed

275 MHz

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Manufacturing process technology

150 nm

55 nm

Number of transistors

60 million

666 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

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320

Power consumption (TDP)

23 Watt

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Texture fill rate

2.200

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Memory type

DDR

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Maximum RAM amount

64 MB

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Memory bus width

128 Bit

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Memory clock speed

550 MHz

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Memory bandwidth

8.8 GB/s

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Display Connectors

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

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DirectX

8.1

10.1 (10_1)

OpenCL

N/A

N/A

OpenGL

1.4

3.3 (full) Shader Model-4.1

Vulkan

N/A

N/A