ATI Radeon 8500 X4 vs RX 470D

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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
ArchitectureGCN 4.0 (2016−2020)Rage 7 (2001−2006)
GPU code nameEllesmereR200
Market segmentDesktopDesktop
Release date21 October 2016 (8 years ago)no data

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 cores1792no data
Core clock speed926 MHz250 MHz
Boost clock speed1206 MHzno data
Number of transistors5,700 million60 million
Manufacturing process technology14 nm150 nm
Power consumption (TDP)120 Watt92 Watt
Texture fill rate135.12.000
Floating-point processing power4.322 TFLOPSno data
ROPs324
TMUs1128

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).

InterfacePCIe 3.0 x16PCI-X
Length241 mm330 mm
Width2-slot1-slot
Supplementary power connectors1x 6-pinno 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 typeGDDR5DDR
Maximum RAM amount4 GB64 MB
Memory bus width256 Bit64 Bit
Memory clock speed1650 MHz250 MHz
Memory bandwidth211.2 GB/s4 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 DisplayPort2x DVI
HDMI+-

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 (12_0)8.1
Shader Model6.4no data
OpenGL4.61.3
OpenCL2.0N/A
Vulkan1.2.131N/A

Pros & cons summary


Maximum RAM amount 4 GB 64 MB
Chip lithography 14 nm 150 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 120 Watt 92 Watt

RX 470D has a 6300% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 971.4% more advanced lithography process.

ATI 8500 X4, on the other hand, has 30.4% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Radeon RX 470D and Radeon 8500 X4. We've got no test results to judge.


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