NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition vs ATI Radeon X1600 XT Dual
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 128MB VRAM GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition and 256MB VRAM Radeon X1600 XT Dual 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 22.08GB/s)
32 additional rendering cores
ATI Radeon X1600 XT Dual 's Advantages
More VRAM (256GB vs 128GB)
Score
Graphics Card
Apr 2007
Release Date
Unknown
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
690 MHz
Memory
128MB
Memory Size
256MB
GDDR3
Memory Type
GDDR3
128bit
Memory Bus
128bit
24.00GB/s
Bandwidth
22.08GB/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
2.360 GPixel/s
9.600 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
2.360 GTexel/s
-
-
-
92.80 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
-
-
-
-
Board Design
47W
TDP
Unknown
200 W
Suggested PSU
200 W
2x DVI
Outputs
2x DVI
None
Power Connectors
1x Molex
Graphics Processor
G84
GPU Name
RV530
G84-303-A2
GPU Variant
-
Tesla
Architecture
Ultra-Threaded SE
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
80 nm
Process Size
90 nm
0.289 billion
Transistors
0.157 billion
169 mm²
Die Size
150 mm²
Graphics Features
11.1 (10_0)
DirectX
9.0c (9_3)
3.3
OpenGL
2.1
1.1
OpenCL
N/A
N/A
Vulkan
N/A
1.1
CUDA
-
4.0
Shader Model
3.0
