ATI Radeon 8500 XT vs FirePro M6100

Primary details

GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.

Place in the ranking593not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
ArchitectureGCN 2.0 (2013−2017)Rage 7 (2001−2006)
GPU code nameEmeraldR250
Market segmentMobile workstationDesktop
Release date27 May 2014 (10 years ago)1 June 2002 (22 years ago)

Detailed specifications

General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores896no data
Core clock speed1100 MHz300 MHz
Number of transistors2,080 million60 million
Manufacturing process technology28 nm150 nm
Power consumption (TDP)no data25 Watt
Texture fill rate61.602.400
Floating-point processing power1.971 TFLOPSno data
ROPs164
TMUs568

Form factor & compatibility

Information on compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

Laptop sizelargeno data
InterfaceMXM-B (3.0)AGP 4x
Widthno data1-slot
Supplementary power connectorsNoneNone

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory typeGDDR5DDR
Maximum RAM amount2 GB128 MB
Memory bus width128 Bit128 Bit
Memory clock speed1500 MHz300 MHz
Memory bandwidth96 GB/s9.6 GB/s
Shared memory-no data

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on the reviewed GPUs. As a rule, data in this section is precise only for desktop reference ones (so-called Founders Edition for NVIDIA chips). OEM manufacturers may change the number and type of output ports, while for notebook cards availability of certain video outputs ports depends on the laptop model rather than on the card itself.

Display ConnectorsPortable Device Dependent1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video

API compatibility

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX12 (12_0)8.1
Shader Model6.5 (6.0)no data
OpenGL4.61.4
OpenCL2.1N/A
Vulkan1.2.170N/A

Pros & cons summary


Recency 27 May 2014 1 June 2002
Maximum RAM amount 2 GB 128 MB
Chip lithography 28 nm 150 nm

FirePro M6100 has an age advantage of 11 years, a 1500% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 435.7% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between FirePro M6100 and Radeon 8500 XT. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that FirePro M6100 is a mobile workstation card while Radeon 8500 XT is a desktop one.


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