ATI Radeon X1600 vs NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GS

VS

ATI Radeon X1600

NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GS

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM Radeon X1600 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 X1600 's Advantages

Lower TDP (27W vs 47W)

NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GS 's Advantages

16 additional rendering cores

Score

Radeon X1600

VS

GeForce 8600 GS

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

400 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

512MB

DDR2

Memory Type

DDR2

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

12.80GB/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

2.540 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

4.320 GPixel/s

2.540 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

4.320 GTexel/s

-

FP32 (float)

38.08 GFLOPS

-

Board Design

27W

TDP

47W

200 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

2x DVI 1x S-Video

Outputs

1x DVI 1x VGA 1x S-Video

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

RV516

GPU Name

G84

-

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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