GeForce 8500 GT vs Radeon R4 (Kaveri)

Place in the ranking	1132	1270
Place by popularity	not in top-100	not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation	no data	0.01
Power efficiency	no data	0.85
Architecture	GCN 1.1 (2014)	Tesla (2006−2010)
GPU code name	Kaveri	G86
Market segment	Laptop	Desktop
Release date	4 June 2014 (10 years ago)	17 April 2007 (17 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)	no data	$129

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 cores	192	16
Core clock speed	533 MHz	459 MHz
Number of transistors	2410 Million	210 million
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	80 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	no data	30 Watt
Texture fill rate	no data	3.672
Floating-point processing power	no data	0.02938 TFLOPS
ROPs	no data	4
TMUs	no data	8

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	no data	PCIe 1.0 x16
Length	no data	229 mm
Width	no data	1-slot
Supplementary power connectors	no data	None
SLI options	-	+

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	no data	GDDR3
Maximum RAM amount	no data	256 MB
Standard memory config per GPU	no data	256 MB
Memory bus width	64/128 Bit	128 Bit
Memory clock speed	no data	400 MHz
Memory bandwidth	no data	12.8 GB/s
Shared memory	+	-

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

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1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video

API compatibility

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

DirectX	12 (FL 12_0)	11.1 (10_0)
Shader Model	no data	4.0
OpenGL	no data	2.1
OpenCL	no data	1.1
Vulkan	-	N/A
CUDA	-	1.1

Gaming performance

Let's see how good the compared graphics cards are for gaming. Particular gaming benchmark results are measured in FPS.

Average FPS across all PC games

Here are the average frames per second in a large set of popular games across different resolutions:

Full HD

7
+133%

3−4

−133%

Cost per frame, $

1080p

no data

43.00

FPS performance in popular games

Full HD
Low Preset

Cyberpunk 2077

3−4
+200%

1−2

−200%

Full HD
Medium Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey	5−6 +150%	2−3 −150%
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare	3−4 +200%	1−2 −200%
Cyberpunk 2077	3−4 +200%	1−2 −200%
Far Cry 5	0−1	0−1
Far Cry New Dawn	2−3	0−1
Hitman 3	5−6 +150%	2−3 −150%
Horizon Zero Dawn	12−14 +140%	5−6 −140%
Red Dead Redemption 2	1−2	0−1
Shadow of the Tomb Raider	7−8 +133%	3−4 −133%
Watch Dogs: Legion	30−35 +158%	12−14 −158%

Full HD
High Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey	5−6 +150%	2−3 −150%
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare	3−4 +200%	1−2 −200%
Cyberpunk 2077	3−4 +200%	1−2 −200%
Far Cry 5	0−1	0−1
Far Cry New Dawn	2−3	0−1
Hitman 3	5−6 +150%	2−3 −150%
Horizon Zero Dawn	12−14 +140%	5−6 −140%
Red Dead Redemption 2	1−2	0−1
Shadow of the Tomb Raider	7−8 +133%	3−4 −133%
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt	10−11 +150%	4−5 −150%
Watch Dogs: Legion	30−35 +158%	12−14 −158%

Full HD
Ultra Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey	5−6 +150%	2−3 −150%
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare	3−4 +200%	1−2 −200%
Cyberpunk 2077	3−4 +200%	1−2 −200%
Far Cry 5	0−1	0−1
Hitman 3	5−6 +150%	2−3 −150%
Horizon Zero Dawn	12−14 +140%	5−6 −140%
Shadow of the Tomb Raider	7−8 +133%	3−4 −133%
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt	10−11 +150%	4−5 −150%
Watch Dogs: Legion	30−35 +158%	12−14 −158%

Full HD
Epic Preset

Red Dead Redemption 2

1−2

0−1

1440p
High Preset

Battlefield 5	0−1	0−1
Far Cry New Dawn	1−2	0−1

1440p
Ultra Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey	0−1	0−1
Cyberpunk 2077	1−2	0−1
Far Cry 5	1−2	0−1
Hitman 3	7−8 +133%	3−4 −133%
Horizon Zero Dawn	4−5 +300%	1−2 −300%
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt	0−1	0−1
Watch Dogs: Legion	3−4 +200%	1−2 −200%