ATI Radeon X1050 AGP vs NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GS
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 128MB VRAM Radeon X1050 AGP and 512MB VRAM GeForce 8600 GS to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
ATI Radeon X1050 AGP 's Advantages
Released 7 months late
Lower TDP (24W vs 47W)
NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GS 's Advantages
More VRAM (512GB vs 128GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (12.80GB/s vs 6.496GB/s)
16 additional rendering cores
Score
Graphics Card
Nov 2007
Release Date
Apr 2007
Radeon R300
Generation
GeForce 8
Desktop
Type
Desktop
AGP 8x
Bus Interface
PCIe 1.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
-
-
203 MHz
Memory Clock
400 MHz
Memory
128MB
Memory Size
512MB
DDR
Memory Type
DDR2
128bit
Memory Bus
128bit
6.496GB/s
Bandwidth
12.80GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
-
SM Count
2
-
Shading Units
16
4
TMUs
8
4
ROPs
8
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
L2 Cache
32 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
1.000 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
4.320 GPixel/s
1.000 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
4.320 GTexel/s
-
-
-
-
FP32 (float)
38.08 GFLOPS
-
-
-
Board Design
24W
TDP
47W
200 W
Suggested PSU
200 W
1x DVI
1x VGA
1x S-Video
Outputs
1x DVI
1x VGA
1x S-Video
None
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
RV360
GPU Name
G84
-
-
-
Rage 9
Architecture
Tesla
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
130 nm
Process Size
80 nm
0.06 billion
Transistors
0.289 billion
76 mm²
Die Size
169 mm²
Graphics Features
9.0 (9_0)
DirectX
11.1 (10_0)
2.0
OpenGL
3.3
N/A
OpenCL
1.1
N/A
Vulkan
N/A
-
CUDA
1.1
-
Shader Model
4.0
