ATI Radeon 8500 vs Iris Xe Graphics G7 96EUs

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking466not rated
Place by popularity75not in top-100
Power efficiency23.55no data
ArchitectureGen. 11 Ice Lake (2019−2022)Rage 7 (2001−2006)
GPU code nameTiger Lake XeR200
Market segmentLaptopDesktop
Release date15 August 2020 (4 years ago)14 August 2001 (23 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 cores96no data
Core clock speed400 MHz275 MHz
Boost clock speed1350 MHzno data
Number of transistorsno data60 million
Manufacturing process technology10 nm150 nm
Power consumption (TDP)28 Watt23 Watt
Texture fill rateno data2.200
ROPsno data4
TMUsno data8

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).

Interfaceno dataAGP 4x
Widthno data1-slot
Supplementary power connectorsno dataNone

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 typeno dataDDR
Maximum RAM amountno data64 MB
Memory bus widthno data128 Bit
Memory clock speedno data275 MHz
Memory bandwidthno data8.8 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 Connectorsno data1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video

Supported technologies

Supported technological solutions. This information will prove useful if you need some particular technology for your purposes.

Quick Sync+no data

API compatibility

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

DirectX12_18.1
OpenGLno data1.4
OpenCLno dataN/A
Vulkan-N/A

Pros & cons summary


Recency 15 August 2020 14 August 2001
Chip lithography 10 nm 150 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 28 Watt 23 Watt

Iris Xe Graphics G7 96EUs has an age advantage of 19 years, and a 1400% more advanced lithography process.

ATI 8500, on the other hand, has 21.7% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Iris Xe Graphics G7 96EUs and Radeon 8500. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Iris Xe Graphics G7 96EUs is a notebook card while Radeon 8500 is a desktop one.


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