ATI Radeon 8500 LE vs NVIDIA GeForce4 MX + nForce2

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Graphics Processor

GPU model R200 Crush17
GPU variant 215R7AAGA13H
Architecture Rage 7 Celsius
Foundry TSMC
Manufacturing process 150 nm 150 nm
Number of transistors 60 million 29 million
Die size 120 mm² 65 mm²

Graphics Card

Release date Feb 4th, 2002
Generation Radeon R200
Production End-of-life
Interface AGP 4x
Predecessor Radeon R100
Successor Radeon R300

Clocks

GPU clock 250 MHz 200 MHz
Memory clock 250 MHz 500 Mbps effective System Shared

Memory Configuration

Memory size 64 MB System Shared
Memory type DDR System Shared
Memory bus width 128 bit System Shared
Bandwidth 8.000 GB/s System Dependent

Render Configuration

Pixel shaders 4 2
Vertex shaders 2 0
TMUs 8 4
ROPs 4 2

Performance

Pixel rate 1.000 GPixel/s 400.0 MPixel/s
Vertex rate 125.0 MVertices/s
Texture rate 2.000 GTexel/s 800.0 MTexel/s

Dimensions & Outputs

Slot width Single-slot IGP
TDP 23 W unknown
Suggested PSU 200 W
Outputs 1x DVI1x VGA1x S-Video No outputs
Power connectors None
Board number 857

API Support & Features

DirectX 8.1 8.0
OpenGL 1.3 1.3
OpenCL
Vulkan
Pixel shader 1.4 1.1
Vertex shader 1.1 1.1

Other Features

Integrated Graphics

Release date Oct 1st, 2002
Generation GeForce 4 MX IGP
Production End-of-life
Interface AGP 4x
Predecessor GeForce 2 MX IGP
Successor GeForce 6 IGP

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