
Radeon 8500 and Radeon Vega 7 - video card comparison
Radeon 8500
Radeon Vega 7
Architecture
Rage 7 (2001−2006)
GCN 5.1 (2018−2021)
GPU code name
R200
Cezanne
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
August 2001
April 2021
Interface
AGP 4x
IGP
Supplementary power connectors
None
None
Boost clock speed
-
1900 MHz
Core clock speed
275 MHz
-
Manufacturing process technology
150 nm
7 nm
Number of transistors
60 million
9,800 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
-
448
Power consumption (TDP)
23 Watt
45 Watt
Texture fill rate
2.200
53.20
Memory type
DDR
System Shared
Maximum RAM amount
64 MB
System Shared
Memory bus width
128 Bit
System Shared
Memory clock speed
550 MHz
System Shared
Memory bandwidth
8.8 GB/s
-
Display Connectors
1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
No outputs
DirectX
8.1
12 (12_1)
OpenCL
N/A
2.1
OpenGL
1.4
4.6
Shader Model
-
6.4
Vulkan
N/A
1.2