NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS Mac Edition vs ATI Radeon X1550 AGP

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NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS Mac Edition

ATI Radeon X1550 AGP

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 8600 GTS Mac Edition and 256MB VRAM Radeon X1550 AGP 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

Released 8 months late

More VRAM (512GB vs 256GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (32.26GB/s vs 5.280GB/s)

32 additional rendering cores

ATI Radeon X1550 AGP 's Advantages

Lower TDP (27W vs 75W)

Score

GeForce 8600 GTS Mac Edition

VS

Radeon X1550 AGP

Graphics Card

Sep 2007

Release Date

Jan 2007

GeForce 8

Generation

Radeon R500 AGP

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 1.0 x16

Bus Interface

AGP 8x

Clock Speeds

-

1008 MHz

Memory Clock

330 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

256MB

GDDR3

Memory Type

DDR2

128bit

Memory Bus

64bit

32.26GB/s

Bandwidth

5.280GB/s

Render Config

-

4

SM Count

-

32

Shading Units

-

16

TMUs

4

8

ROPs

4

-

32 KB

L2 Cache

-

Theoretical Performance

5.400 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

2.400 GPixel/s

10.80 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

2.400 GTexel/s

-

92.80 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

-

Board Design

75W

TDP

27W

250 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

2x DVI

Outputs

1x DVI 1x VGA 1x S-Video

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

G84

GPU Name

RV505

G84-400-A2

GPU Variant

-

Tesla

Architecture

R500

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

80 nm

Process Size

90 nm

0.289 billion

Transistors

0.107 billion

169 mm²

Die Size

100 mm²

Graphics Features

11.1 (10_0)

DirectX

9.0c (9_3)

3.3

OpenGL

2.1

1.1

OpenCL

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

1.1

CUDA

-

4.0

Shader Model

3.0

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