Radeon R7 Graphics and Radeon 8500 - video card comparison
Radeon R7 Graphics
Radeon 8500
Architecture
GCN 2.0 (2013−2017)
Rage 7 (2001−2006)
GPU code name
Spectre
R200
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
January 2014
August 2001
Interface
IGP
AGP 4x
Supplementary power connectors
-
None
Boost clock speed
980 MHz
-
Core clock speed
686 MHz
275 MHz
Floating-point performance
526.8 gflops
-
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
150 nm
Number of transistors
2,410 million
60 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
512
-
Power consumption (TDP)
15 Watt
23 Watt
Texture fill rate
31.36
2.200
Memory type
System Shared
DDR
Maximum RAM amount
System Shared
64 MB
Memory bus width
System Shared
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
System Shared
550 MHz
Memory bandwidth
-
8.8 GB/s
Display Connectors
No outputs
1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
DirectX
12 (12_0)
8.1
OpenCL
2.0
N/A
OpenGL
4.6
1.4
Shader Model
6.0
-
Vulkan
1.2.131
N/A