NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS vs ATI Radeon X1600

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NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS ATI Radeon X1600

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 256MB VRAM GeForce 8600 GTS and 512MB VRAM Radeon X1600 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (32.00GB/s vs 12.80GB/s)

32 additional rendering cores

ATI Radeon X1600 's Advantages

More VRAM (512GB vs 256GB)

Lower TDP (27W vs 60W)

Score

GeForce 8600 GTS

VS

Radeon X1600

Graphics Card

Apr 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

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

1000 MHz

Memory Clock

400 MHz

Memory

256MB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR3

Memory Type

DDR2

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

32.00GB/s

Bandwidth

12.80GB/s

Render Config

4

SM Count

-

Compute Units

-

32

Shading Units

-

16

TMUs

4

8

ROPs

4

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

L1 Cache

-

32 KB

L2 Cache

-

Theoretical Performance

5.400 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

2.540 GPixel/s

10.80 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

2.540 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

92.80 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

-

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

G84

GPU Name

RV516

G84-400-A2

GPU Variant

-

Tesla

Architecture

R500

TSMC

Foundry

UMC

80 nm

Process Size

80 nm

0.289 billion

Transistors

0.107 billion

169 mm²

Die Size

100 mm²

Board Design

60W

TDP

27W

250 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

2x DVI 1x S-Video

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

None

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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