NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS Mac Edition vs ATI Radeon HD 2600 XT Mac Edition

VS

NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS Mac Edition

ATI Radeon HD 2600 XT Mac Edition

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 8600 GTS Mac Edition and 256MB VRAM Radeon HD 2600 XT Mac Edition to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS Mac Edition 's Advantages

More VRAM (512GB vs 256GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (32.26GB/s vs 25.60GB/s)

ATI Radeon HD 2600 XT Mac Edition 's Advantages

88 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (45W vs 75W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce 8600 GTS Mac Edition

0.093 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 2600 XT Mac Edition +80%

0.168 TFLOPS

GeForce 8600 GTS Mac Edition

VS

Radeon HD 2600 XT Mac Edition

Graphics Card

Sep 2007

Release Date

Feb 2008

GeForce 8

Generation

Radeon R600

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 1.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 1.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

1008 MHz

Memory Clock

800 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

256MB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR3

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

32.26GB/s

Bandwidth

25.60GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

3

4

SM Count

-

32

Shading Units

120

16

TMUs

8

ROPs

4

-

32 KB

L2 Cache

64 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

5.400 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

2.800 GPixel/s

10.80 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

5.600 GTexel/s

-

92.80 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

168.0 GFLOPS

-

Board Design

75W

TDP

45W

250 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

2x DVI

Outputs

2x DVI

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

G84

GPU Name

RV630

G84-400-A2

GPU Variant

-

Tesla

Architecture

TeraScale

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

80 nm

Process Size

65 nm

0.289 billion

Transistors

0.39 billion

169 mm²

Die Size

153 mm²

Graphics Features

11.1 (10_0)

DirectX

10.0 (10_0)

3.3

OpenGL

3.3

1.1

OpenCL

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

1.1

CUDA

-

4.0

Shader Model

4.0

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