ATI Radeon X1950 GT AGP vs NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GS

VS

ATI Radeon X1950 GT AGP

NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GS

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 256MB VRAM Radeon X1950 GT 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 X1950 GT AGP 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (38.40GB/s vs 12.80GB/s)

NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GS 's Advantages

More VRAM (512GB vs 256GB)

16 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (47W vs 57W)

Score

Radeon X1950 GT AGP

VS

GeForce 8600 GS

Graphics Card

Feb 2007

Release Date

Apr 2007

Radeon R500 AGP

Generation

GeForce 8

Desktop

Type

Desktop

AGP 8x

Bus Interface

PCIe 1.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

600 MHz

Memory Clock

400 MHz

Memory

256MB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR3

Memory Type

DDR2

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

38.40GB/s

Bandwidth

12.80GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

2

-

Shading Units

16

12

TMUs

8

12

ROPs

8

-

L2 Cache

32 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

6.000 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

4.320 GPixel/s

6.000 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

4.320 GTexel/s

-

FP32 (float)

38.08 GFLOPS

-

Board Design

57W

TDP

47W

250 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

2x DVI 1x S-Video

Outputs

1x DVI 1x VGA 1x S-Video

2x Molex

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

RV570

GPU Name

G84

RV570 XL

GPU Variant

-

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 (full) 3.0 (partial)

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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