ATI Radeon X1550 vs NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition

VS

ATI Radeon X1550

NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 256MB VRAM Radeon X1550 and 128MB VRAM GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

ATI Radeon X1550 's Advantages

More VRAM (256GB vs 128GB)

Lower TDP (27W vs 47W)

NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (24.00GB/s vs 12.80GB/s)

32 additional rendering cores

Score

Radeon X1550

VS

GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition

Graphics Card

Jan 2007

Release Date

Apr 2007

Radeon R500 PCIe

Generation

GeForce 8

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 1.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 1.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

400 MHz

Memory Clock

750 MHz

Memory

256MB

Memory Size

128MB

DDR2

Memory Type

GDDR3

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

12.80GB/s

Bandwidth

24.00GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

4

-

Shading Units

32

4

TMUs

16

4

ROPs

8

-

L2 Cache

32 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

2.200 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

4.800 GPixel/s

2.200 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

9.600 GTexel/s

-

FP32 (float)

92.80 GFLOPS

-

Board Design

27W

TDP

47W

200 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

1x DVI 1x VGA 1x S-Video

Outputs

2x DVI

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

RV516

GPU Name

G84

-

GPU Variant

G84-303-A2

R500

Architecture

Tesla

UMC

Foundry

TSMC

80 nm

Process Size

80 nm

0.107 billion

Transistors

0.289 billion

100 mm²

Die Size

169 mm²

Graphics Features

9.0c (9_3)

DirectX

11.1 (10_0)

2.1

OpenGL

3.3

N/A

OpenCL

1.1

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

1.1

3.0

Shader Model

4.0

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