AMD Radeon R7 M440 vs ATI Radeon 8500

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon R7 M440 and ATI Radeon 8500 videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark, GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps), Geekbench - OpenCL.

AMD Radeon R7 M440

ATI Radeon 8500

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon R7 M440

Videocard is newer: launch date 14 year(s) 9 month(s) later
3.7x more core clock speed: 1021 MHz vs 275 MHz
9.3x more texture fill rate: 20.42 GTexel / s vs 2.2 GTexel / s
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 28 nm vs 150 nm
64x more maximum memory size: 4 GB vs 64 MB
3.6x more memory clock speed: 2000 MHz vs 550 MHz
128.7x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 901 vs 7
Around 18% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 173 vs 146

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	15 May 2016 vs 14 August 2001
Core clock speed	1021 MHz vs 275 MHz
Texture fill rate	20.42 GTexel / s vs 2.2 GTexel / s
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm vs 150 nm
Maximum memory size	4 GB vs 64 MB
Memory clock speed	2000 MHz vs 550 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	901 vs 7
PassMark - G2D Mark	173 vs 146

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon R7 M440
GPU 2: ATI Radeon 8500

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

901

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

173

146

Name	AMD Radeon R7 M440	ATI Radeon 8500
PassMark - G3D Mark	901	7
PassMark - G2D Mark	173	146
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)	1935
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	1935
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	2067
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	2067
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	2537
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	2537
Geekbench - OpenCL	5598

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD Radeon R7 M440	ATI Radeon 8500
Essentials
Architecture	GCN 3.0	Rage 7
Code name	Meso	R200
Launch date	15 May 2016	14 August 2001
Place in performance rating	1128	1125
Type	Laptop	Desktop
Technical info
Core clock speed	1021 MHz	275 MHz
Floating-point performance	653.4 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	150 nm
Pipelines	320
Texture fill rate	20.42 GTexel / s	2.2 GTexel / s
Transistor count	3,100 million	60 million
Thermal Design Power (TDP)		23 Watt
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 3.0 x8	AGP 4x
Supplementary power connectors		None
API support
DirectX	12.0 (12_0)	8.1
OpenGL	4.5	1.4
Vulkan
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	4 GB	64 MB
Memory bandwidth	16 GB / s	8.8 GB / s
Memory bus width	64 Bit	128 Bit
Memory clock speed	2000 MHz	550 MHz
Memory type	DDR3	DDR
Shared memory	0