NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition vs ATI Radeon X1550

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NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition

ATI Radeon X1550

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 128MB VRAM GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition and 256MB VRAM Radeon X1550 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 12.80GB/s)

32 additional rendering cores

ATI Radeon X1550 's Advantages

More VRAM (256GB vs 128GB)

Lower TDP (27W vs 47W)

Score

GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition

VS

Radeon X1550

Graphics Card

Apr 2007

Release Date

Jan 2007

GeForce 8

Generation

Radeon R500 PCIe

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 1.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 1.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

750 MHz

Memory Clock

400 MHz

Memory

128MB

Memory Size

256MB

GDDR3

Memory Type

DDR2

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

24.00GB/s

Bandwidth

12.80GB/s

Render Config

-

4

SM Count

-

32

Shading Units

-

16

TMUs

4

8

ROPs

4

-

32 KB

L2 Cache

-

Theoretical Performance

4.800 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

2.200 GPixel/s

9.600 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

2.200 GTexel/s

-

92.80 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

-

Board Design

47W

TDP

27W

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

RV516

G84-303-A2

GPU Variant

-

Tesla

Architecture

R500

TSMC

Foundry

UMC

80 nm

Process Size

80 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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