
Radeon VII and GeForce 8500 GT - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score Radeon VII vs GeForce 8500 GT
Radeon VII
17191
GeForce 8500 GT
140
Radeon VII
GeForce 8500 GT
Architecture
Vega (2017−2021)
Tesla (2006−2010)
GPU code name
Vega 20
G86
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
February 2019
April 2007
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 1.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
2x 8-pin
None
SLI options
-
+
Boost clock speed
1750 MHz
-
Core clock speed
1400 MHz
459 MHz
Floating-point performance
-
29.376 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
7 nm
80 nm
Number of transistors
13,230 million
210 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
3840
16
Power consumption (TDP)
295 Watt
30 Watt
Texture fill rate
420.0
3.6 billion/sec
Memory type
HBM2
GDDR3
Maximum RAM amount
16 GB
256 MB
Memory bus width
4096 Bit
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
1000 MHz
800 MHz
Memory bandwidth
1024 GB/s
12.8 GB/s
Standard memory config per GPU
-
256 MB
Display Connectors
1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort
1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
HDMI
+
-
DirectX
12 (12_1)
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