NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GS vs ATI Radeon X1650

VS

NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GS

ATI Radeon X1650

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 8600 GS and 256MB VRAM Radeon X1650 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 6.400GB/s)

16 additional rendering cores

ATI Radeon X1650 's Advantages

Released 7 months late

Score

GeForce 8600 GS

VS

Radeon X1650

Graphics Card

Apr 2007

Release Date

Nov 2007

GeForce 8

Generation

Radeon R500 PCIe

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 1.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 1.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

400 MHz

Memory Clock

400 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

256MB

DDR2

Memory Type

DDR2

128bit

Memory Bus

64bit

12.80GB/s

Bandwidth

6.400GB/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

2.540 GPixel/s

4.320 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

2.540 GTexel/s

-

38.08 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

-

Board Design

47W

TDP

Unknown

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

RV516

-

Tesla

Architecture

Ultra-Threaded SE

TSMC

Foundry

UMC

80 nm

Process Size

90 nm

0.289 billion

Transistors

0.105 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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