ATI Radeon 8500 videocard review

ATI Radeon 8500

Radeon 8500 videocard released by ATI; release date: 14 August 2001. The videocard is designed for desktop-computers and based on Rage 7 microarchitecture codenamed R200.

Core clock speed - 275 MHz. Texture fill rate - 2.2 GTexel / s. Manufacturing process technology - 150 nm. Transistors count - 60 million. Power consumption (TDP) - 23 Watt.

Memory type: DDR. Maximum RAM amount - 64 MB. Memory bus width - 128 Bit. Memory clock speed - 550 MHz. Memory bandwidth - 8.8 GB / s.

Benchmarks

PassMark
G2D Mark
Top 1 GPU
This GPU
1294
146
PassMark
G3D Mark
Top 1 GPU
This GPU
38534
7
Name Value
PassMark - G2D Mark 146
PassMark - G3D Mark 7

Specifications (specs)

Essentials

Architecture Rage 7
Code name R200
Launch date 14 August 2001
Place in performance rating 1121
Type Desktop

Technical info

Core clock speed 275 MHz
Manufacturing process technology 150 nm
Texture fill rate 2.2 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 23 Watt
Transistor count 60 million

Video outputs and ports

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

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Interface AGP 4x
Supplementary power connectors None

API support

DirectX 8.1
OpenGL 1.4

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 64 MB
Memory bandwidth 8.8 GB / s
Memory bus width 128 Bit
Memory clock speed 550 MHz
Memory type DDR