Radeon R9 290 and Radeon 8500 - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score Radeon R9 290 vs Radeon 8500
Radeon R9 290
8336
Radeon 8500
6
Radeon R9 290
Radeon 8500
Architecture
GCN 2.0 (2013−2017)
Rage 7 (2001−2006)
GPU code name
Hawaii
R200
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
November 2013
August 2001
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
AGP 4x
Supplementary power connectors
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
None
Core clock speed
947 MHz
275 MHz
Floating-point performance
4,849 gflops
-
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
150 nm
Number of transistors
6,200 million
60 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
2560
-
Power consumption (TDP)
275 Watt
23 Watt
Texture fill rate
151.5
2.200
Memory type
GDDR5
DDR
Maximum RAM amount
4 GB
64 MB
Memory bus width
512 Bit
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
5000 MHz
550 MHz
Memory bandwidth
320.0 GB/s
8.8 GB/s
Display Connectors
2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort
1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
HDMI
+
-
DirectX
12 (12_0)
8.1
OpenCL
2.0
N/A
OpenGL
4.6
1.4
Shader Model
6.3
-
Vulkan
1.2.131
N/A