NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS vs ATI Radeon X1600 PRO AGP

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NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS

ATI Radeon X1600 PRO AGP

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 256MB VRAM GeForce 8600 GTS and 256MB VRAM Radeon X1600 PRO AGP 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 12.48GB/s)

32 additional rendering cores

ATI Radeon X1600 PRO AGP 's Advantages

Released 6 months late

Lower TDP (41W vs 60W)

Score

GeForce 8600 GTS

VS

Radeon X1600 PRO AGP

Graphics Card

Apr 2007

Release Date

Oct 2007

GeForce 8

Generation

Radeon R500 AGP

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 1.0 x16

Bus Interface

AGP 8x

Clock Speeds

-

1000 MHz

Memory Clock

390 MHz

Memory

256MB

Memory Size

256MB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR3

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

32.00GB/s

Bandwidth

12.48GB/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

2.000 GPixel/s

10.80 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

2.000 GTexel/s

-

92.80 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

-

Board Design

60W

TDP

41W

250 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

2x DVI 1x S-Video

Outputs

1x DVI 1x VGA 1x S-Video

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

Floppy

Graphics Processor

G84

GPU Name

RV530

G84-400-A2

GPU Variant

RV530 PRO (215CADAKA24FG)

Tesla

Architecture

R500

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

80 nm

Process Size

90 nm

0.289 billion

Transistors

0.157 billion

169 mm²

Die Size

150 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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