NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS Mac Edition vs ATI Radeon X1950 GT

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NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS Mac Edition

ATI Radeon X1950 GT

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 8600 GTS Mac Edition and 256MB VRAM Radeon X1950 GT 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)

32 additional rendering cores

ATI Radeon X1950 GT 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (38.40GB/s vs 32.26GB/s)

Lower TDP (57W vs 75W)

Score

GeForce 8600 GTS Mac Edition

VS

Radeon X1950 GT

Graphics Card

Sep 2007

Release Date

Jan 2007

GeForce 8

Generation

Radeon R500 PCIe

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 1.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 1.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

1008 MHz

Memory Clock

600 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

256MB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR3

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

32.26GB/s

Bandwidth

38.40GB/s

Render Config

-

4

SM Count

-

32

Shading Units

-

16

TMUs

12

8

ROPs

12

-

32 KB

L2 Cache

-

Theoretical Performance

5.400 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

6.000 GPixel/s

10.80 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

6.000 GTexel/s

-

92.80 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

-

Board Design

75W

TDP

57W

250 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

2x DVI

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

G84

GPU Name

RV570

G84-400-A2

GPU Variant

RV570 XL

Tesla

Architecture

R500

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

80 nm

Process Size

80 nm

0.289 billion

Transistors

0.33 billion

169 mm²

Die Size

230 mm²

Graphics Features

11.1 (10_0)

DirectX

9.0c (9_3)

3.3

OpenGL

2.1 (full) 3.0 (partial)

1.1

OpenCL

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

1.1

CUDA

-

4.0

Shader Model

3.0

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