NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition vs ATI Radeon X1950 GT
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 128MB VRAM GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition and 256MB VRAM Radeon X1950 GT 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
32 additional rendering cores
Lower TDP (47W vs 57W)
ATI Radeon X1950 GT 's Advantages
More VRAM (256GB vs 128GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (38.40GB/s vs 24.00GB/s)
Score
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
600 MHz
Memory
128MB
Memory Size
256MB
GDDR3
Memory Type
GDDR3
128bit
Memory Bus
256bit
24.00GB/s
Bandwidth
38.40GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
4
SM Count
-
32
Shading Units
-
16
TMUs
12
8
ROPs
12
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
32 KB
L2 Cache
-
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
4.800 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
6.000 GPixel/s
9.600 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
6.000 GTexel/s
-
-
-
92.80 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
-
-
-
-
Board Design
47W
TDP
57W
200 W
Suggested PSU
250 W
2x DVI
Outputs
2x DVI
1x S-Video
None
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
G84
GPU Name
RV570
G84-303-A2
GPU Variant
RV570 XL
Tesla
Architecture
R500
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
80 nm
Process Size
80 nm
0.289 billion
Transistors
0.33 billion
169 mm²
Die Size
230 mm²
Graphics Features
11.1 (10_0)
DirectX
9.0c (9_3)
3.3
OpenGL
2.1 (full)
3.0 (partial)
1.1
OpenCL
N/A
N/A
Vulkan
N/A
1.1
CUDA
-
4.0
Shader Model
3.0
