NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GS vs ATI Mobility Radeon X1600 Mac Edition

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NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GS

ATI Mobility Radeon X1600 Mac Edition

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 8600M GS and 128MB VRAM Mobility Radeon X1600 Mac Edition to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GS 's Advantages

More VRAM (512GB vs 128GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (12.80GB/s vs 12.67GB/s)

16 additional rendering cores

ATI Mobility Radeon X1600 Mac Edition 's Advantages

Released 6 months late

Score

GeForce 8600M GS

VS

Mobility Radeon X1600 Mac Edition

Graphics Card

May 2007

Release Date

Nov 2007

GeForce 8M

Generation

M5x

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-II

Bus Interface

PCIe 1.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

400 MHz

Memory Clock

396 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

128MB

DDR2

Memory Type

GDDR3

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

12.80GB/s

Bandwidth

12.67GB/s

Render Config

-

1

SM Count

-

16

Shading Units

-

8

TMUs

4

ROPs

4

-

32 KB

L2 Cache

-

Theoretical Performance

1.800 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

1.592 GPixel/s

3.600 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

1.592 GTexel/s

-

28.80 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

-

Board Design

20W

TDP

Unknown

-

No outputs

Outputs

Portable Device Dependent

-

Graphics Processor

G86

GPU Name

M56

G86-770-A2

GPU Variant

-

Tesla

Architecture

Ultra-Threaded SE

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

80 nm

Process Size

90 nm

0.21 billion

Transistors

0.157 billion

127 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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