Radeon E9171 MCM vs GeForce 8500 GT

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking1270not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation0.01no data
Power efficiency0.85no data
ArchitectureTesla (2006−2010)GCN 4.0 (2016−2020)
GPU code nameG86Lexa
Market segmentDesktopLaptop
Release date17 April 2007 (17 years ago)3 October 2017 (7 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$129 no data

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

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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 cores16512
Core clock speed459 MHz1124 MHz
Boost clock speedno data1219 MHz
Number of transistors210 million2,200 million
Manufacturing process technology80 nm14 nm
Power consumption (TDP)30 Watt40 Watt
Texture fill rate3.67239.01
Floating-point processing power0.02938 TFLOPS1.248 TFLOPS
ROPs416
TMUs832

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).

InterfacePCIe 1.0 x16PCIe 3.0 x8
Length229 mmno data
Width1-slotno data
Supplementary power connectorsNoneNone
SLI options+-

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 typeGDDR3GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount256 MB4 GB
Standard memory config per GPU256 MBno data
Memory bus width128 Bit128 Bit
Memory clock speed400 MHz1500 MHz
Memory bandwidth12.8 GB/s96 GB/s

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 Connectors1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-VideoNo outputs

API compatibility

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

DirectX11.1 (10_0)12 (12_0)
Shader Model4.06.4
OpenGL2.14.6
OpenCL1.12.0
VulkanN/A1.2.131
CUDA1.1-

Pros & cons summary


Recency 17 April 2007 3 October 2017
Maximum RAM amount 256 MB 4 GB
Chip lithography 80 nm 14 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 30 Watt 40 Watt

8500 GT has 33.3% lower power consumption.

E9171 MCM, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 10 years, a 1500% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 471.4% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between GeForce 8500 GT and Radeon E9171 MCM. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that GeForce 8500 GT is a desktop card while Radeon E9171 MCM is a notebook one.


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