ATI Radeon 8500 videocard review

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

1295

146

PassMark
G3D Mark

Top 1 GPU

This GPU

38582

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	1136
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