Radeon X1900 GT and Radeon 8500 - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score Radeon X1900 GT vs Radeon 8500
Radeon X1900 GT
149
Radeon 8500
6
Radeon X1900 GT
Radeon 8500
Architecture
R500 (2005−2007)
Rage 7 (2001−2006)
GPU code name
R580
R200
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
May 2006
August 2001
Interface
PCIe 1.0 x16
AGP 4x
Supplementary power connectors
1x 6-pin
None
Core clock speed
575 MHz
275 MHz
Manufacturing process technology
90 nm
150 nm
Number of transistors
384 million
60 million
Power consumption (TDP)
75 Watt
23 Watt
Texture fill rate
6.900
2.200
Memory type
GDDR3
DDR
Maximum RAM amount
256 MB
64 MB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
1200 MHz
550 MHz
Memory bandwidth
38.4 GB/s
8.8 GB/s
Display Connectors
2x DVI, 1x S-Video
1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
DirectX
9.0c (9_3)
8.1
OpenCL
N/A
N/A
OpenGL
2.0
1.4
Shader Model
3.0
-
Vulkan
N/A
N/A