ATI Radeon 8500 vs FirePro M4000

Primary details

GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.

Place in the ranking	683	not rated
Place by popularity	not in top-100	not in top-100
Power efficiency	8.67	no data
Architecture	GCN 1.0 (2011−2020)	Rage 7 (2001−2006)
GPU code name	Chelsea	R200
Market segment	Mobile workstation	Desktop
Release date	27 June 2012 (12 years ago)	14 August 2001 (23 years ago)

Detailed specifications

General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores	512	no data
Core clock speed	675 MHz	275 MHz
Number of transistors	1,500 million	60 million
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	150 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	33 Watt	23 Watt
Texture fill rate	21.60	2.200
Floating-point processing power	0.6912 TFLOPS	no data
ROPs	16	4
TMUs	32	8

Form factor & compatibility

Information on compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

Laptop size	medium sized	no data
Bus support	n/a	no data
Interface	MXM-A (3.0)	AGP 4x
Width	no data	1-slot
Form factor	MXM-A	no data
Supplementary power connectors	None	None

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory type	GDDR5	DDR
Maximum RAM amount	1 GB	64 MB
Memory bus width	128 Bit	128 Bit
Memory clock speed	1000 MHz	275 MHz
Memory bandwidth	72 GB/s	8.8 GB/s
Shared memory	-	no data

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on the reviewed GPUs. As a rule, data in this section is precise only for desktop reference ones (so-called Founders Edition for NVIDIA chips). OEM manufacturers may change the number and type of output ports, while for notebook cards availability of certain video outputs ports depends on the laptop model rather than on the card itself.

Display Connectors	No outputs	1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
StereoOutput3D	+	-

API compatibility

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX	12 (11_1)	8.1
Shader Model	5.1	no data
OpenGL	4.6	1.4
OpenCL	1.2	N/A
Vulkan	1.2.131	N/A

Synthetic benchmark performance

Non-gaming benchmark results comparison. The combined score is measured on a 0-100 point scale.

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Pros & cons summary

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Recency	27 June 2012	14 August 2001
Maximum RAM amount	1 GB	64 MB
Chip lithography	28 nm	150 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	33 Watt	23 Watt

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