NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition vs ATI Radeon X550 XT
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 128MB VRAM GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition and 128MB VRAM Radeon X550 XT 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 9.600GB/s)
32 additional rendering cores
Score
Graphics Card
Apr 2007
Release Date
Jan 2007
GeForce 8
Generation
Radeon R300
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 1.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 1.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
-
-
750 MHz
Memory Clock
300 MHz
Memory
128MB
Memory Size
128MB
GDDR3
Memory Type
GDDR3
128bit
Memory Bus
128bit
24.00GB/s
Bandwidth
9.600GB/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
1.600 GPixel/s
9.600 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
1.600 GTexel/s
-
-
-
92.80 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
-
-
-
-
Board Design
47W
TDP
Unknown
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
-
