ATI Radeon HD 2600 XT Mac Edition vs NVIDIA GeForce 8500 GT

VS

ATI Radeon HD 2600 XT Mac Edition

NVIDIA GeForce 8500 GT

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 256MB VRAM Radeon HD 2600 XT Mac Edition and 256MB VRAM GeForce 8500 GT to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

ATI Radeon HD 2600 XT Mac Edition 's Advantages

Released 10 months late

Larger VRAM bandwidth (25.60GB/s vs 12.80GB/s)

104 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce 8500 GT 's Advantages

Lower TDP (30W vs 45W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 2600 XT Mac Edition +479%

0.168 TFLOPS

GeForce 8500 GT

0.029 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 2600 XT Mac Edition

VS

GeForce 8500 GT

Graphics Card

Feb 2008

Release Date

Apr 2007

Radeon R600

Generation

GeForce 8

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 1.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 1.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

800 MHz

Memory Clock

400 MHz

Memory

256MB

Memory Size

256MB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR3

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

25.60GB/s

Bandwidth

12.80GB/s

Render Config

3

Compute Units

-

SM Count

2

120

Shading Units

16

8

TMUs

8

4

ROPs

4

-

64 KB

L2 Cache

32 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

2.800 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

1.836 GPixel/s

5.600 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

3.672 GTexel/s

-

168.0 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

29.38 GFLOPS

-

Board Design

45W

TDP

30W

200 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

2x DVI

Outputs

1x DVI 1x VGA 1x S-Video

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

RV630

GPU Name

G86

-

GPU Variant

G86-300-A2

TeraScale

Architecture

Tesla

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

65 nm

Process Size

80 nm

0.39 billion

Transistors

0.21 billion

153 mm²

Die Size

127 mm²

Graphics Features

10.0 (10_0)

DirectX

11.1 (10_0)

3.3

OpenGL

3.3

N/A

OpenCL

1.1

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

1.1

4.0

Shader Model

4.0

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