NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GS vs ATI Radeon X1550 AGP

VS

NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GS

ATI Radeon X1550 AGP

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 8600 GS and 256MB VRAM Radeon X1550 AGP to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GS 's Advantages

More VRAM (512GB vs 256GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (12.80GB/s vs 5.280GB/s)

16 additional rendering cores

ATI Radeon X1550 AGP 's Advantages

Lower TDP (27W vs 47W)

Score

GeForce 8600 GS

VS

Radeon X1550 AGP

Graphics Card

Apr 2007

Release Date

Jan 2007

GeForce 8

Generation

Radeon R500 AGP

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 1.0 x16

Bus Interface

AGP 8x

Clock Speeds

-

400 MHz

Memory Clock

330 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

256MB

DDR2

Memory Type

DDR2

128bit

Memory Bus

64bit

12.80GB/s

Bandwidth

5.280GB/s

Render Config

-

2

SM Count

-

16

Shading Units

-

8

TMUs

4

8

ROPs

4

-

32 KB

L2 Cache

-

Theoretical Performance

4.320 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

2.400 GPixel/s

4.320 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

2.400 GTexel/s

-

38.08 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

-

Board Design

47W

TDP

27W

200 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

1x DVI 1x VGA 1x S-Video

Outputs

1x DVI 1x VGA 1x S-Video

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

G84

GPU Name

RV505

-

Tesla

Architecture

R500

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

80 nm

Process Size

90 nm

0.289 billion

Transistors

0.107 billion

169 mm²

Die Size

100 mm²

Graphics Features

11.1 (10_0)

DirectX

9.0c (9_3)

3.3

OpenGL

2.1

1.1

OpenCL

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

1.1

CUDA

-

4.0

Shader Model

3.0

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