ATI Radeon 8500 vs ATI Rage 128 PRO

Comparative analysis of ATI Radeon 8500 and ATI Rage 128 PRO 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 - G2D Mark, PassMark - G3D Mark.

ATI Radeon 8500

ATI Rage 128 PRO

Differences

Reasons to consider the ATI Radeon 8500

Videocard is newer: launch date 2 year(s) 0 month(s) later
2.3x more core clock speed: 275 MHz vs 118 MHz
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 150 nm vs 250 nm
2x more maximum memory size: 64 MB vs 32 MB
3.8x more memory clock speed: 550 MHz vs 143 MHz

Launch date	14 August 2001 vs 1 August 1999
Core clock speed	275 MHz vs 118 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	150 nm vs 250 nm
Maximum memory size	64 MB vs 32 MB
Memory clock speed	550 MHz vs 143 MHz

Reasons to consider the ATI Rage 128 PRO

107.3x more texture fill rate: 236.0 MTexel / s vs 2.2 GTexel / s

Texture fill rate	236.0 MTexel / s vs 2.2 GTexel / s

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: ATI Radeon 8500
GPU 2: ATI Rage 128 PRO

Name	ATI Radeon 8500	ATI Rage 128 PRO
PassMark - G2D Mark	146
PassMark - G3D Mark	7

Compare specifications (specs)

	ATI Radeon 8500	ATI Rage 128 PRO
Essentials
Architecture	Rage 7	Rage 4
Code name	R200	Rage 4
Launch date	14 August 2001	1 August 1999
Place in performance rating	1165	not rated
Type	Desktop	Desktop
Technical info
Core clock speed	275 MHz	118 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	150 nm	250 nm
Texture fill rate	2.2 GTexel / s	236.0 MTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	23 Watt
Transistor count	60 million	8 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video	1x VGA, 1x S-Video
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	AGP 4x	AGP 4x
Supplementary power connectors	None	None
API support
DirectX	8.1	6.0
OpenGL	1.4	1.2
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	64 MB	32 MB
Memory bandwidth	8.8 GB / s	1.144 GB / s
Memory bus width	128 Bit	64 Bit
Memory clock speed	550 MHz	143 MHz
Memory type	DDR	SDR