ATI Radeon 8500 XT: specs and benchmarks
Summary
ATI started Radeon 8500 XT sales 1 June 2002. This is a desktop graphics card based on a Rage 7 architecture and made with 150 nm manufacturing process. It is primarily aimed at gamer market. 128 MB of DDR memory clocked at 600 MBps are supplied, and together with 128 Bit memory interface this creates a bandwidth of 9.6 GB/s.
Compatibility-wise, this is single-slot card attached via AGP 4x interface. No additional power connector is required, and power consumption is at 25 Watt.
Primary details
Some basic facts about Radeon 8500 XT: architecture, market segment, release date etc.
| Place in performance ranking | not rated | |
| Place by popularity | not in top-100 | |
| Architecture | Rage 7 (2001−2006) | |
| GPU code name | R250 | |
| Market segment | Desktop | |
| Release date | 1 June 2002 (22 years ago) | |
| Current price | $90 | of 168889 (A100 PCIe 80 GB) |
Detailed specifications
Radeon 8500 XT's specs such as number of shaders, GPU base clock, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of Radeon 8500 XT's performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider its benchmark and gaming test results.
| Core clock speed | 300 MHz | of 2610 (Radeon RX 6500 XT) |
| Number of transistors | 60 million | of 14400 (GeForce GTX 1070 SLI Mobile) |
| Manufacturing process technology | 150 nm | of 4 (Radeon 780M) |
| Power consumption (TDP) | 25 Watt | of 2400 (Data Center GPU Max Subsystem) |
| Texture fill rate | 2.400 | of 969.9 (H100 SXM5 96 GB) |
Form factor & compatibility
This section provides details about the physical dimensions of Radeon 8500 XT and its compatibility with other computer components. This information is useful when selecting a computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards, it includes details about the interface and bus (for motherboard compatibility) and additional power connectors (for power supply compatibility).
| Interface | AGP 4x | |
| Width | 1-slot | |
| Supplementary power connectors | None |
VRAM capacity and type
Parameters of memory installed on Radeon 8500 XT: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Note that GPUs integrated into processors have no dedicated memory and use a shared part of system RAM instead.
| Memory type | DDR | |
| Maximum RAM amount | 128 MB | of 192 (Radeon Instinct MI300X) |
| Memory bus width | 128 Bit | of 8192 (Radeon Instinct MI250X) |
| Memory clock speed | 600 MBps | of 23000 (GeForce RTX 4080 SUPER) |
| Memory bandwidth | 9.6 GB/s | of 3276 (Aldebaran) |
Connectivity and outputs
Types and number of video connectors present on Radeon 8500 XT. As a rule, this section is relevant only for desktop reference graphics cards, since for notebook ones the availability of certain video outputs depends on the laptop model, while non-reference desktop models can (though not necessarily will) bear a different set of video ports.
| Display Connectors | 1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video |
API compatibility
APIs supported by Radeon 8500 XT, sometimes including their particular versions.
| DirectX | 8.1 | |
| OpenGL | 1.4 | of 4.6 (GeForce RTX 4090) |
| OpenCL | N/A | |
| Vulkan | N/A |
Recommended processors
These processors are most commonly used with Radeon 8500 XT according to our statistics.
