ATI Radeon X1700 SE vs NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS

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ATI Radeon X1700 SE

NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM Radeon X1700 SE 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 X1700 SE 's Advantages

Released 7 months late

More VRAM (512GB vs 256GB)

Lower TDP (50W vs 60W)

NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (32.00GB/s vs 16.00GB/s)

32 additional rendering cores

Score

Radeon X1700 SE

VS

GeForce 8600 GTS

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

-

500 MHz

Memory Clock

1000 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

256MB

DDR2

Memory Type

GDDR3

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

16.00GB/s

Bandwidth

32.00GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

4

-

Shading Units

32

8

TMUs

16

8

ROPs

8

-

L2 Cache

32 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

4.000 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

5.400 GPixel/s

4.000 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

10.80 GTexel/s

-

FP32 (float)

92.80 GFLOPS

-

Board Design

50W

TDP

60W

250 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

2x DVI 1x S-Video

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

None

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

RV560

GPU Name

G84

RV560 SE

GPU Variant

G84-400-A2

R500

Architecture

Tesla

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

80 nm

Process Size

80 nm

0.33 billion

Transistors

0.289 billion

230 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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