Radeon R7 260X and Radeon 8500 - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score Radeon R7 260X vs Radeon 8500
Radeon R7 260X
3282
Radeon 8500
6
Radeon R7 260X
Radeon 8500
Architecture
GCN 2.0 (2013−2017)
Rage 7 (2001−2006)
GPU code name
Bonaire
R200
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
October 2013
August 2001
Bus support
PCIe 3.0
-
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
AGP 4x
Supplementary power connectors
1 x 6-pin
None
Boost clock speed
1000 MHz
-
Core clock speed
-
275 MHz
Floating-point performance
1,971 gflops
-
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
150 nm
Number of transistors
2,080 million
60 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
896
-
Power consumption (TDP)
115 Watt
23 Watt
Texture fill rate
61.60
2.200
Memory type
GDDR5
DDR
Maximum RAM amount
4 GB
64 MB
Memory bus width
128 Bit
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
-
550 MHz
Memory bandwidth
104 GB/s
8.8 GB/s
Display Connectors
2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort
1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
Eyefinity
1
-
HDMI
+
-
DisplayPort support
-
-
DirectX
DirectX® 12
8.1
Mantle
-
-
OpenCL
2.0
N/A
OpenGL
4.6
1.4
Shader Model
6.3
-
Vulkan
-
N/A
AppAcceleration
-
-
DDMA audio
+
-
Enduro
-
-
FreeSync
1
-
HD3D
-
-
PowerTune
-
-
TrueAudio
-
-
ZeroCore
-
-