NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS Mac Edition vs ATI Radeon X1950 XTX Uber Edition

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NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS Mac Edition

ATI Radeon X1950 XTX Uber Edition

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 8600 GTS Mac Edition and 512MB VRAM Radeon X1950 XTX Uber 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

Released 8 months late

32 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (75W vs 125W)

ATI Radeon X1950 XTX Uber Edition 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (67.20GB/s vs 32.26GB/s)

Score

GeForce 8600 GTS Mac Edition

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Radeon X1950 XTX Uber Edition

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

1050 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR4

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

32.26GB/s

Bandwidth

67.20GB/s

Render Config

-

4

SM Count

-

32

Shading Units

-

16

TMUs

16

8

ROPs

16

-

32 KB

L2 Cache

-

Theoretical Performance

5.400 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

10.72 GPixel/s

10.80 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

10.72 GTexel/s

-

92.80 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

-

Board Design

75W

TDP

125W

250 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

2x DVI

Outputs

1x DVI 1x VHDCI

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

G84

GPU Name

R580+

G84-400-A2

GPU Variant

R580+ XT (215BAABKA31FG)

Tesla

Architecture

R500

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

80 nm

Process Size

90 nm

0.289 billion

Transistors

0.384 billion

169 mm²

Die Size

352 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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