ATI Radeon 8500 XT vs Pro Duo

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking259not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation4.50no data
Power efficiency4.16no data
ArchitectureGCN 3.0 (2014−2019)Rage 7 (2001−2006)
GPU code nameCapsaicinR250
Market segmentWorkstationDesktop
Designreferenceno data
Release date26 April 2016 (8 years ago)1 June 2002 (22 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$1,499 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 cores4096no data
Compute units128no data
Core clock speedno data300 MHz
Boost clock speed1000 MHzno data
Number of transistors8,900 million60 million
Manufacturing process technology28 nm150 nm
Power consumption (TDP)350 Watt25 Watt
Texture fill rate256.02.400
Floating-point processing power8.192 TFLOPSno data
ROPs644
TMUs2568

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 supportPCIe 3.0no data
InterfacePCIe 3.0 x16AGP 4x
Length277 mmno data
Width2-slot1-slot
Supplementary power connectors3x 8-pinNone

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 typeHigh Bandwidth Memory (HBM)DDR
Maximum RAM amount8 GB128 MB
Memory bus width4096 Bit128 Bit
Memory clock speed500 MHz300 MHz
Memory bandwidth512 GB/s9.6 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 HDMI, 3x DisplayPort1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
Eyefinity+-
Number of Eyefinity displays6no data
HDMI+-
DisplayPort support+-

Supported technologies

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

AppAcceleration+-
CrossFire+-
Enduro+-
FRTC+-
FreeSync+-
HD3D+-
LiquidVR+-
PowerTune+-
TressFX+-
TrueAudio+-
ZeroCore+-
UVD+-
VCE+-

API compatibility

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

DirectXDirectX® 128.1
Shader Model6.0no data
OpenGL4.51.4
OpenCL2.0N/A
Vulkan+N/A
Mantle+-

Pros & cons summary


Recency 26 April 2016 1 June 2002
Maximum RAM amount 8 GB 128 MB
Chip lithography 28 nm 150 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 350 Watt 25 Watt

Pro Duo has an age advantage of 13 years, a 6300% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 435.7% more advanced lithography process.

ATI 8500 XT, on the other hand, has 1300% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Radeon Pro Duo and Radeon 8500 XT. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Radeon Pro Duo is a workstation graphics card while Radeon 8500 XT is a desktop one.


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