NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition vs ATI Radeon X800 GT AGP
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 128MB VRAM GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition and 256MB VRAM Radeon X800 GT AGP 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
ATI Radeon X800 GT AGP 's Advantages
Released 7 months late
More VRAM (256GB vs 128GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (31.55GB/s vs 24.00GB/s)
Lower TDP (40W vs 47W)
Score
Graphics Card
Apr 2007
Release Date
Nov 2007
GeForce 8
Generation
Radeon R400 AGP
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 1.0 x16
Bus Interface
AGP 8x
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
-
-
750 MHz
Memory Clock
493 MHz
Memory
128MB
Memory Size
256MB
GDDR3
Memory Type
GDDR3
128bit
Memory Bus
256bit
24.00GB/s
Bandwidth
31.55GB/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
3.784 GPixel/s
9.600 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
3.784 GTexel/s
-
-
-
92.80 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
-
-
-
-
Board Design
47W
TDP
40W
200 W
Suggested PSU
200 W
2x DVI
Outputs
1x DVI
1x VGA
1x S-Video
None
Power Connectors
1x Molex
Graphics Processor
G84
GPU Name
R420
G84-303-A2
GPU Variant
R420 GT
(215RAACGA12F)
Tesla
Architecture
R400
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
80 nm
Process Size
130 nm
0.289 billion
Transistors
0.16 billion
169 mm²
Die Size
281 mm²
Graphics Features
11.1 (10_0)
DirectX
9.0b (9_2)
3.3
OpenGL
2.1
1.1
OpenCL
N/A
N/A
Vulkan
N/A
1.1
CUDA
-
4.0
Shader Model
-
