Radeon HD 4870 and Radeon 8500 - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score Radeon HD 4870 vs Radeon 8500
Radeon HD 4870
1411
Radeon 8500
6
Radeon HD 4870
Radeon 8500
Architecture
TeraScale (2005−2013)
Rage 7 (2001−2006)
GPU code name
RV770
R200
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
June 2008
August 2001
Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
AGP 4x
Supplementary power connectors
2x 6-pin
None
Core clock speed
750 MHz
275 MHz
Floating-point performance
1,200.0 gflops
-
Manufacturing process technology
55 nm
150 nm
Number of transistors
956 million
60 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
800
-
Power consumption (TDP)
150 Watt
23 Watt
Texture fill rate
30.00
2.200
Memory type
GDDR5
DDR
Maximum RAM amount
1 GB
64 MB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
3600 MHz
550 MHz
Memory bandwidth
115.2 GB/s
8.8 GB/s
Display Connectors
2x DVI, 1x S-Video
1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
DirectX
10.1 (10_1)
8.1
OpenCL
1.1
N/A
OpenGL
3.3
1.4
Shader Model
4.1
-
Vulkan
N/A
N/A