ATI Radeon X1700 FSC vs NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition

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ATI Radeon X1700 FSC

NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 256MB VRAM Radeon X1700 FSC 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 X1700 FSC 's Advantages

Released 7 months late

More VRAM (256GB vs 128GB)

Lower TDP (44W vs 47W)

NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (24.00GB/s vs 22.24GB/s)

32 additional rendering cores

Score

Radeon X1700 FSC

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GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition

Graphics Card

Nov 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

-

695 MHz

Memory Clock

750 MHz

Memory

256MB

Memory Size

128MB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR3

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

22.24GB/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

2.348 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

4.800 GPixel/s

2.348 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

9.600 GTexel/s

-

FP32 (float)

92.80 GFLOPS

-

Board Design

44W

TDP

47W

200 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

1x DVI 1x VGA 1x S-Video

Outputs

2x DVI

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

RV535

GPU Name

G84

RV535 FSC

GPU Variant

G84-303-A2

R500

Architecture

Tesla

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

80 nm

Process Size

80 nm

0.33 billion

Transistors

0.289 billion

131 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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