ATI Graphics Ultra Pro ISA vs Radeon HD 8250

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking	1214	not rated
Place by popularity	not in top-100	not in top-100
Power efficiency	4.76	no data
Architecture	GCN 2.0 (2013−2017)	Mach (1992−1997)
GPU code name	Kalindi	Mach32
Market segment	Desktop	Desktop
Release date	23 May 2013 (11 years ago)	1992 (32 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)	no data	$799

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 cores	128	no data
Core clock speed	300 MHz	10 MHz
Boost clock speed	400 MHz	no data
Number of transistors	1,178 million	no data
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	700 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	8 Watt	no data
Texture fill rate	3.200	no data
Floating-point processing power	0.1024 TFLOPS	no data
ROPs	4	1
TMUs	8	no data

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).

Interface	IGP	ISA 16 Bit
Width	IGP	1-slot

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 type	System Shared	DRAM
Maximum RAM amount	System Shared	2 MB
Memory bus width	System Shared	64 Bit
Memory clock speed	System Shared	10 MHz
Memory bandwidth	no data	80 MB/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 Connectors

No outputs

1x VGA

API compatibility

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

DirectX	12 (12_0)	N/A
Shader Model	6.3	no data
OpenGL	4.6	N/A
OpenCL	2.0	N/A
Vulkan	1.2.131	N/A

Pros & cons summary

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Chip lithography

28 nm

700 nm

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