Radeon PRO W7900 vs ATI 8500 X4

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Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot rated12
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluationno data16.67
Power efficiencyno data17.98
ArchitectureRage 7 (2001−2006)RDNA 3.0 (2022−2024)
GPU code nameR200Navi 31
Market segmentDesktopWorkstation
Release dateno data (2024 years ago)13 April 2023 (1 year ago)
Launch price (MSRP)no data$3,999

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

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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 coresno data6144
Core clock speed250 MHz1855 MHz
Boost clock speedno data2495 MHz
Number of transistors60 million57,700 million
Manufacturing process technology150 nm5 nm
Power consumption (TDP)92 Watt295 Watt
Texture fill rate2.000958.1
Floating-point processing powerno data61.32 TFLOPS
ROPs4192
TMUs8384
Ray Tracing Coresno data96

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).

InterfacePCI-XPCIe 4.0 x16
Length330 mm280 mm
Width1-slot3-slot
Supplementary power connectorsno data2x 8-pin

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 typeDDRGDDR6
Maximum RAM amount64 MB48 GB
Memory bus width64 Bit384 Bit
Memory clock speed250 MHz2250 MHz
Memory bandwidth4 GB/s864.0 GB/s

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 Connectors2x DVI3x DisplayPort 2.1, 1x mini-DisplayPort 2.1

API compatibility

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

DirectX8.112 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Modelno data6.7
OpenGL1.34.6
OpenCLN/A2.2
VulkanN/A1.3

Pros & cons summary


Maximum RAM amount 64 MB 48 GB
Chip lithography 150 nm 5 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 92 Watt 295 Watt

ATI 8500 X4 has 220.7% lower power consumption.

PRO W7900, on the other hand, has a 76700% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 2900% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Radeon 8500 X4 and Radeon PRO W7900. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Radeon 8500 X4 is a desktop card while Radeon PRO W7900 is a workstation one.


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