ATI Radeon 8500 vs ATI HD 4720

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Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot rated1544
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiencyno data0.03
ArchitectureTeraScale (2005−2013)Rage 7 (2001−2006)
GPU code nameRV730R200
Market segmentDesktopDesktop
Release date11 December 2011 (13 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 cores320no data
Core clock speed600 MHz275 MHz
Number of transistors514 million60 million
Manufacturing process technology55 nm150 nm
Power consumption (TDP)55 Watt23 Watt
Texture fill rate19.202.200
Floating-point processing power0.384 TFLOPSno data
ROPs84
TMUs328

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).

InterfacePCIe 2.0 x16AGP 4x
Length193 mmno data
Width1-slot1-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 typeGDDR3DDR
Maximum RAM amount1 GB64 MB
Memory bus width128 Bit128 Bit
Memory clock speed667 MHz275 MHz
Memory bandwidth21.34 GB/s8.8 GB/s

Connectivity and outputs

This section shows the types and number of video connectors on each GPU. The data applies specifically to desktop reference models (for example, NVIDIA’s Founders Edition). OEM partners often modify both the number and types of ports. On notebook GPUs, video‐output options are determined by the laptop’s design rather than the graphics chip itself.

Display Connectors2x DVI, 1x S-Video1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video

API and SDK compatibility

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

DirectX10.1 (10_1)8.1
Shader Model4.1no data
OpenGL3.31.4
OpenCL1.1N/A
VulkanN/AN/A

Pros & cons summary


Recency 11 December 2011 14 August 2001
Maximum RAM amount 1 GB 64 MB
Chip lithography 55 nm 150 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 55 Watt 23 Watt

ATI HD 4720 has an age advantage of 10 years, a 1500% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 172.7% more advanced lithography process.

ATI 8500, on the other hand, has 139.1% lower power consumption.

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