NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS Mac Edition vs ATI Radeon X550 XT

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NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS Mac Edition

ATI Radeon X550 XT

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 8600 GTS Mac Edition and 128MB VRAM Radeon X550 XT 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 128GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (32.26GB/s vs 9.600GB/s)

32 additional rendering cores

Score

GeForce 8600 GTS Mac Edition

VS

Radeon X550 XT

Graphics Card

Sep 2007

Release Date

Jan 2007

GeForce 8

Generation

Radeon R300

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 1.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 1.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

1008 MHz

Memory Clock

300 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

128MB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR3

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

32.26GB/s

Bandwidth

9.600GB/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

1.600 GPixel/s

10.80 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

1.600 GTexel/s

-

92.80 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

-

Board Design

75W

TDP

Unknown

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

RV410

G84-400-A2

GPU Variant

-

Tesla

Architecture

R400

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

80 nm

Process Size

110 nm

0.289 billion

Transistors

0.12 billion

169 mm²

Die Size

156 mm²

Graphics Features

11.1 (10_0)

DirectX

9.0b (9_2)

3.3

OpenGL

2.0

1.1

OpenCL

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

1.1

CUDA

-

4.0

Shader Model

-

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