GeForce G110M vs ATI Radeon 8500

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Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot ratednot rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
ArchitectureRage 7 (2001−2006)Tesla (2006−2010)
GPU code nameR200G96C
Market segmentDesktopLaptop
Release date14 August 2001 (23 years ago)8 January 2009 (15 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 coresno data16
Core clock speed275 MHz400 MHz
Number of transistors60 million314 million
Manufacturing process technology150 nm55 nm
Power consumption (TDP)23 Watt14 Watt
Texture fill rate2.2003.200
Floating-point processing powerno data0.032 TFLOPS
Gigaflopsno data48
ROPs44
TMUs88

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).

Bus supportno dataPCI-E 2.0
InterfaceAGP 4xPCIe 2.0 x16
Width1-slotno data
Supplementary power connectorsNoneno data

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 typeDDRGDDR3
Maximum RAM amount64 MBUp to 1 GB
Memory bus width128 Bit64 Bit
Memory clock speed275 MHz500 (DDR2)/700 (GDDR3) MHz
Memory bandwidth8.8 GB/s8 (DDR2)/11 (GDDR3)

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-VideoDisplayPortDual Link DVIVGAHDMISingle Link DVI
Multi monitor supportno data+
HDMI-+
Maximum VGA resolutionno data2048x1536

Supported technologies

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

Power managementno data8.0

API compatibility

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

DirectX8.111.1 (10_0)
Shader Modelno data4.0
OpenGL1.42.1
OpenCLN/A1.1
VulkanN/AN/A
CUDA-+

Pros & cons summary


Recency 14 August 2001 8 January 2009
Chip lithography 150 nm 55 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 23 Watt 14 Watt

GeForce G110M has an age advantage of 7 years, a 172.7% more advanced lithography process, and 64.3% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Radeon 8500 and GeForce G110M. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Radeon 8500 is a desktop card while GeForce G110M is a notebook one.


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