Radeon 9700 PRO and Radeon 8500 - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score Radeon 9700 PRO vs Radeon 8500
Radeon 9700 PRO
55
Radeon 8500
6
Radeon 9700 PRO
Radeon 8500
Architecture
Rage 8 (2002−2006)
Rage 7 (2001−2006)
GPU code name
R300
R200
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
July 2002
August 2001
Interface
AGP 8x
AGP 4x
Supplementary power connectors
Floppy
None
Core clock speed
325 MHz
275 MHz
Manufacturing process technology
150 nm
150 nm
Number of transistors
110 million
60 million
Power consumption (TDP)
-
23 Watt
Texture fill rate
2.600
2.200
Memory type
DDR
DDR
Maximum RAM amount
128 MB
64 MB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
620 MHz
550 MHz
Memory bandwidth
19.84 GB/s
8.8 GB/s
Display Connectors
1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
DirectX
9.0 (9_0)
8.1
OpenCL
N/A
N/A
OpenGL
2.0
1.4
Vulkan
N/A
N/A