NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GS vs ATI Radeon X800 GTO AGP

VS

NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GS

ATI Radeon X800 GTO AGP

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 8600 GS and 256MB VRAM Radeon X800 GTO 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)

16 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (47W vs 49W)

ATI Radeon X800 GTO AGP 's Advantages

Released 7 months late

Larger VRAM bandwidth (31.36GB/s vs 12.80GB/s)

Score

GeForce 8600 GS

VS

Radeon X800 GTO AGP

Graphics Card

Apr 2007

Release Date

Nov 2007

GeForce 8

Generation

Radeon R400 AGP

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 1.0 x16

Bus Interface

AGP 8x

Clock Speeds

-

400 MHz

Memory Clock

490 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

256MB

DDR2

Memory Type

GDDR3

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

12.80GB/s

Bandwidth

31.36GB/s

Render Config

-

2

SM Count

-

16

Shading Units

-

8

TMUs

12

8

ROPs

12

-

32 KB

L2 Cache

-

Theoretical Performance

4.320 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

4.800 GPixel/s

4.320 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

4.800 GTexel/s

-

38.08 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

-

Board Design

47W

TDP

49W

200 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

1x DVI 1x VGA 1x S-Video

Outputs

1x DVI 1x VGA 1x S-Video

None

Power Connectors

1x Molex

Graphics Processor

G84

GPU Name

R420

-

GPU Variant

R420 GTO

Tesla

Architecture

R400

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

80 nm

Process Size

130 nm

0.289 billion

Transistors

0.16 billion

169 mm²

Die Size

281 mm²

Graphics Features

11.1 (10_0)

DirectX

9.0b (9_2)

3.3

OpenGL

2.1

1.1

OpenCL

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

1.1

CUDA

-

4.0

Shader Model

-

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