NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition vs ATI Radeon X1050
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 128MB VRAM GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition and 128MB VRAM Radeon X1050 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition 's Advantages
Larger VRAM bandwidth (24.00GB/s vs 3.200GB/s)
32 additional rendering cores
ATI Radeon X1050 's Advantages
Released 9 months late
Lower TDP (24W vs 47W)
Score
Graphics Card
Apr 2007
Release Date
Jan 2008
GeForce 8
Generation
Radeon R400 PCIe
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 1.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 1.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
-
-
750 MHz
Memory Clock
200 MHz
Memory
128MB
Memory Size
128MB
GDDR3
Memory Type
DDR
128bit
Memory Bus
64bit
24.00GB/s
Bandwidth
3.200GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
4
SM Count
-
32
Shading Units
-
16
TMUs
8
8
ROPs
8
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
32 KB
L2 Cache
-
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
4.800 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
3.200 GPixel/s
9.600 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
3.200 GTexel/s
-
-
-
92.80 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
-
-
-
-
Board Design
47W
TDP
24W
200 W
Suggested PSU
200 W
2x DVI
Outputs
1x DVI
1x VGA
1x S-Video
None
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
G84
GPU Name
RV410
G84-303-A2
GPU Variant
-
Tesla
Architecture
R400
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
80 nm
Process Size
110 nm
0.289 billion
Transistors
0.12 billion
169 mm²
Die Size
156 mm²
Graphics Features
11.1 (10_0)
DirectX
9.0b (9_2)
3.3
OpenGL
2.0
1.1
OpenCL
N/A
N/A
Vulkan
N/A
1.1
CUDA
-
4.0
Shader Model
-
