Intel Iris Xe Graphics G7 96EU vs ATI Radeon 8500

Comparative analysis of Intel Iris Xe Graphics G7 96EU 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: 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score, PassMark - G2D Mark, PassMark - G3D Mark.

Intel Iris Xe Graphics G7 96EU

ATI Radeon 8500

Differences

Reasons to consider the Intel Iris Xe Graphics G7 96EU

Videocard is newer: launch date 19 year(s) 0 month(s) later
Around 9% higher core clock speed: 300 MHz vs 275 MHz
48000x more texture fill rate: 105.6 GTexel/s vs 2.2 GTexel / s
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 10 nm vs 150 nm
Around 53% lower typical power consumption: 15 Watt vs 23 Watt

Launch date	2 Sep 2020 vs 14 August 2001
Core clock speed	300 MHz vs 275 MHz
Texture fill rate	105.6 GTexel/s vs 2.2 GTexel / s
Manufacturing process technology	10 nm vs 150 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	15 Watt vs 23 Watt

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: Intel Iris Xe Graphics G7 96EU
GPU 2: ATI Radeon 8500

Name	Intel Iris Xe Graphics G7 96EU	ATI Radeon 8500
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score	142
PassMark - G2D Mark		146
PassMark - G3D Mark		7

Compare specifications (specs)

	Intel Iris Xe Graphics G7 96EU	ATI Radeon 8500
Essentials
Architecture	Generation 12.0	Rage 7
Code name	Tiger Lake GT2	R200
Launch date	2 Sep 2020	14 August 2001
Place in performance rating	1698	1165
Type	Laptop	Desktop
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1100 MHz
Compute units	96
Core clock speed	300 MHz	275 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	10 nm	150 nm
Peak Double Precision (FP64) Performance	422.4 GFLOPS
Peak Half Precision (FP16) Performance	3.379 TFLOPS
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance	1.690 TFLOPS
Pipelines	768
Pixel fill rate	26.40 GPixel/s
Texture fill rate	105.6 GTexel/s	2.2 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	15 Watt	23 Watt
Transistor count		60 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 3.0 x1	AGP 4x
Width	IGP
Supplementary power connectors		None
API support
DirectX	12.1	8.1
OpenCL	2.1
OpenGL	4.6	1.4
Shader Model	6.4
Vulkan
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