ATI Radeon 8500 XT vs GeForce GTX 1650 Mobile

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking296not rated
Place by popularity78not in top-100
Power efficiency25.72no data
ArchitectureTuring (2018−2022)Rage 7 (2001−2006)
GPU code nameTU117R250
Market segmentLaptopDesktop
Release date15 April 2020 (4 years ago)1 June 2002 (22 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 cores1024no data
Core clock speed1380 MHz300 MHz
Boost clock speed1560 MHzno data
Number of transistors4,700 million60 million
Manufacturing process technology12 nm150 nm
Power consumption (TDP)50 Watt25 Watt
Texture fill rate99.842.400
Floating-point processing power3.195 TFLOPSno data
ROPs324
TMUs648

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 sizemedium sizedno data
InterfacePCIe 3.0 x16AGP 4x
Widthno data1-slot
Supplementary power connectorsno dataNone

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 typeGDDR6DDR
Maximum RAM amount4 GB128 MB
Memory bus width128 Bit128 Bit
Memory clock speed1500 MHz300 MHz
Memory bandwidth192.0 GB/s9.6 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 ConnectorsNo outputs1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 (12_1)8.1
Shader Model6.5no data
OpenGL4.61.4
OpenCL1.2N/A
Vulkan1.2.140N/A
CUDA7.5-

Pros & cons summary


Recency 15 April 2020 1 June 2002
Maximum RAM amount 4 GB 128 MB
Chip lithography 12 nm 150 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 50 Watt 25 Watt

GTX 1650 Mobile has an age advantage of 17 years, a 3100% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 1150% more advanced lithography process.

ATI 8500 XT, on the other hand, has 100% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between GeForce GTX 1650 Mobile and Radeon 8500 XT. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that GeForce GTX 1650 Mobile is a notebook card while Radeon 8500 XT is a desktop one.


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