Radeon 8500 and Radeon RX Vega Mobile - video card comparison

Radeon 8500

Radeon RX Vega Mobile

Architecture

Rage 7 (2001−2006)

Vega (2017−2021)

GPU code name

R200

Vega Mobile

Market segment

Desktop

Laptop

Release date

August 2001

January 2018

Interface

AGP 4x

Supplementary power connectors

None

Core clock speed

275 MHz

Manufacturing process technology

150 nm

14 nm

Number of transistors

60 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

1792

Power consumption (TDP)

23 Watt

90 Watt

Texture fill rate

2.200

Memory type

DDR

HBM2

Maximum RAM amount

64 MB

4 GB

Memory bus width

128 Bit

2048 Bit

Memory clock speed

550 MHz

Memory bandwidth

8.8 GB/s

Shared memory

Display Connectors

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

DirectX

8.1

12_1

OpenCL

N/A

OpenGL

1.4

Vulkan

N/A