NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition vs ATI Radeon X800 GTO
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 128MB VRAM GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition and 128MB VRAM Radeon X800 GTO 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 22.40GB/s)
32 additional rendering cores
Lower TDP (47W vs 49W)
ATI Radeon X800 GTO 's Advantages
Released 8 months late
Score
Graphics Card
Apr 2007
Release Date
Dec 2007
GeForce 8
Generation
Radeon R400 PCIe
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 1.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 1.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
-
-
750 MHz
Memory Clock
350 MHz
Memory
128MB
Memory Size
128MB
GDDR3
Memory Type
DDR
128bit
Memory Bus
256bit
24.00GB/s
Bandwidth
22.40GB/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
4.800 GPixel/s
9.600 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
4.800 GTexel/s
-
-
-
92.80 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
-
-
-
-
Board Design
47W
TDP
49W
200 W
Suggested PSU
200 W
2x DVI
Outputs
1x DVI
1x VGA
1x S-Video
None
Power Connectors
-
Graphics Processor
G84
GPU Name
R423
G84-303-A2
GPU Variant
R423 GTO
Tesla
Architecture
R400
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
80 nm
Process Size
130 nm
0.289 billion
Transistors
0.16 billion
169 mm²
Die Size
289 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
-
