Radeon HD 4850 and GeForce 6500 - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score Radeon HD 4850 vs GeForce 6500
Radeon HD 4850
1057
GeForce 6500
39
Radeon HD 4850
GeForce 6500
Architecture
Terascale 1 (2008−2010)
Curie (2003−2013)
GPU code name
RV770
NV44 A2
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
June 2008
October 2005
Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
PCIe 1.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
1x 6-pin
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Core clock speed
625 MHz
400 MHz
Floating-point performance
1,000.0 gflops
-
Manufacturing process technology
55 nm
110 nm
Number of transistors
956 million
75 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
800
-
Power consumption (TDP)
110 Watt
-
Texture fill rate
25.00
1.600
Memory type
GDDR3
DDR2
Maximum RAM amount
512 MB
128 MB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
993 MHz
532 MHz
Memory bandwidth
63.55 GB/s
8.512 GB/s
Display Connectors
2x DVI, 1x S-Video
1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
DirectX
10.1 (10_1)
9.0c (9_3)
OpenCL
1.1
N/A
OpenGL
3.3
2.1
Shader Model
4.1
3.0
Vulkan
N/A
N/A