Radeon RX 550 and GeForce 8500 GT - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score Radeon RX 550 vs GeForce 8500 GT
Radeon RX 550
2809
GeForce 8500 GT
140
Radeon RX 550
GeForce 8500 GT
Architecture
GCN 4.0 (2016−2020)
Tesla (2006−2010)
GPU code name
Lexa
G86
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
April 2017
April 2007
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x8
PCIe 1.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
None
None
SLI options
-
+
Boost clock speed
1183 MHz
-
Core clock speed
1100 MHz
459 MHz
Floating-point performance
1,211 gflops
29.376 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
14 nm
80 nm
Number of transistors
2,200 million
210 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
512
16
Power consumption (TDP)
50 Watt
30 Watt
Texture fill rate
37.86
3.6 billion/sec
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR3
Maximum RAM amount
4 GB
256 MB
Memory bus width
128 Bit
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
7000 MHz
800 MHz
Memory bandwidth
112.0 GB/s
12.8 GB/s
Standard memory config per GPU
-
256 MB
Display Connectors
1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort
1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
HDMI
+
-
DirectX
12 (12_0)
11.1 (10_0)
CUDA
-
1.1
OpenCL
2.0
1.1
OpenGL
4.6
2.1
Shader Model
6.4
4.0
Vulkan
1.2.131
N/A