ATI Radeon HD 2600 XT Mac Edition vs NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 256MB VRAM Radeon HD 2600 XT Mac Edition and 256MB VRAM GeForce 8600 GTS 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
88 additional rendering cores
Lower TDP (45W vs 60W)
NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS 's Advantages
Larger VRAM bandwidth (32.00GB/s vs 25.60GB/s)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Radeon HD 2600 XT Mac Edition
+80%
0.168 TFLOPS
GeForce 8600 GTS
0.093 TFLOPS
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
1000 MHz
Memory
256MB
Memory Size
256MB
GDDR3
Memory Type
GDDR3
128bit
Memory Bus
128bit
25.60GB/s
Bandwidth
32.00GB/s
Render Config
3
Compute Units
-
-
SM Count
4
120
Shading Units
32
8
TMUs
16
4
ROPs
8
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
64 KB
L2 Cache
32 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
2.800 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
5.400 GPixel/s
5.600 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
10.80 GTexel/s
-
-
-
168.0 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
92.80 GFLOPS
-
-
-
Board Design
45W
TDP
60W
200 W
Suggested PSU
250 W
2x DVI
Outputs
2x DVI
1x S-Video
None
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
RV630
GPU Name
G84
-
GPU Variant
G84-400-A2
TeraScale
Architecture
Tesla
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
65 nm
Process Size
80 nm
0.39 billion
Transistors
0.289 billion
153 mm²
Die Size
169 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
