
Radeon 8500 and Radeon RX 6850M XT - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score Radeon 8500 vs Radeon RX 6850M XT
Radeon 8500
6
Radeon RX 6850M XT
17707
Radeon 8500
Radeon RX 6850M XT
Architecture
Rage 7 (2001−2006)
RDNA 2 (2020−2022)
GPU code name
R200
Navi 22
Market segment
Desktop
Laptop
Release date
August 2001
January 2022
Interface
AGP 4x
PCIe 4.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
None
None
Boost clock speed
-
2463 MHz
Core clock speed
275 MHz
-
Manufacturing process technology
150 nm
7 nm
Number of transistors
60 million
17,200 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
-
2560
Power consumption (TDP)
23 Watt
145 Watt
Texture fill rate
2.200
413.0
Memory type
DDR
GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount
64 MB
12 GB
Memory bus width
128 Bit
192 Bit
Memory clock speed
550 MHz
18000 MHz
Memory bandwidth
8.8 GB/s
384.0 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
No outputs
DirectX
8.1
12 Ultimate (12_2)
OpenCL
N/A
2.1
OpenGL
1.4
4.6
Shader Model
-
6.5
Vulkan
N/A
1.2