Radeon R7 (Kaveri) and GeForce 8500 GT - video card comparison
Radeon R7 (Kaveri)
GeForce 8500 GT
Architecture
GCN 1.1 (2014)
Tesla (2006−2010)
GPU code name
Kaveri
G86
Market segment
Laptop
Desktop
Release date
June 2014
April 2007
Interface
-
PCIe 1.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
-
None
SLI options
-
+
Boost clock speed
686 MHz
-
Core clock speed
553 MHz
459 MHz
Floating-point performance
-
29.376 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
80 nm
Number of transistors
2410 Million
210 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
512
16
Power consumption (TDP)
-
30 Watt
Texture fill rate
-
3.6 billion/sec
Memory type
-
GDDR3
Maximum RAM amount
-
256 MB
Memory bus width
64/128 Bit
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
-
800 MHz
Memory bandwidth
-
12.8 GB/s
Shared memory
+
-
Standard memory config per GPU
-
256 MB
Display Connectors
-
1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
DirectX
12 (FL 12_0)
11.1 (10_0)
CUDA
-
1.1
OpenCL
-
1.1
OpenGL
-
2.1
Shader Model
-
4.0
Vulkan
-
N/A