NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GS vs ATI Radeon HD 2600 XT X2

VS

NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GS

ATI Radeon HD 2600 XT X2

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 8600 GS and 512MB VRAM Radeon HD 2600 XT X2 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

ATI Radeon HD 2600 XT X2 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (25.60GB/s vs 12.80GB/s)

104 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce 8600 GS

0.038 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 2600 XT X2 +405%

0.192 TFLOPS

GeForce 8600 GS

VS

Radeon HD 2600 XT X2

Graphics Card

Apr 2007

Release Date

Jul 2007

GeForce 8

Generation

Radeon R600

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 1.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 1.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

400 MHz

Memory Clock

800 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

512MB

DDR2

Memory Type

GDDR3

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

12.80GB/s

Bandwidth

25.60GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

3

2

SM Count

-

16

Shading Units

120

8

TMUs

8

ROPs

4

-

32 KB

L2 Cache

64 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

4.320 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

3.200 GPixel/s

4.320 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

6.400 GTexel/s

-

38.08 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

192.0 GFLOPS

-

Board Design

47W

TDP

Unknown

200 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

1x DVI 1x VGA 1x S-Video

Outputs

4x DVI 1x S-Video

None

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

G84

GPU Name

RV630

-

Tesla

Architecture

TeraScale

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

80 nm

Process Size

65 nm

0.289 billion

Transistors

0.39 billion

169 mm²

Die Size

153 mm²

Graphics Features

11.1 (10_0)

DirectX

10.0 (10_0)

3.3

OpenGL

3.3

1.1

OpenCL

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

1.1

CUDA

-

4.0

Shader Model

4.0

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