Switch GPU and Radeon 8500 - video card comparison

Switch GPU

Radeon 8500

Architecture

Maxwell 2.0 (2015−2019)

Rage 7 (2001−2006)

GPU code name

GM20B

R200

Market segment

Desktop

Desktop

Release date

March 2017

August 2001

Interface

IGP

AGP 4x

Supplementary power connectors

None

None

Boost clock speed

768 MHz

-

Core clock speed

-

275 MHz

Manufacturing process technology

20 nm

150 nm

Number of transistors

2,000 million

60 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

256

-

Power consumption (TDP)

15 Watt

23 Watt

Texture fill rate

12.29

2.200

Memory type

DDR4

DDR

Maximum RAM amount

4 GB

64 MB

Memory bus width

64 Bit

128 Bit

Memory clock speed

3200 MHz

550 MHz

Memory bandwidth

25.6 GB/s

8.8 GB/s

Display Connectors

No outputs

1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video

DirectX

12 (12_1)

8.1

CUDA

5.3

-

OpenCL

1.2

N/A

OpenGL

4.6

1.4

Shader Model

6.4

-

Vulkan

1.1.126

N/A