ATI Radeon X1950 GT vs NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition

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ATI Radeon X1950 GT

NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition

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

More VRAM (256GB vs 128GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (38.40GB/s vs 24.00GB/s)

NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition 's Advantages

32 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (47W vs 57W)

Score

Radeon X1950 GT

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

-

600 MHz

Memory Clock

750 MHz

Memory

256MB

Memory Size

128MB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

38.40GB/s

Bandwidth

24.00GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

4

-

Shading Units

32

12

TMUs

16

12

ROPs

8

-

L2 Cache

32 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

6.000 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

4.800 GPixel/s

6.000 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

9.600 GTexel/s

-

FP32 (float)

92.80 GFLOPS

-

Board Design

57W

TDP

47W

250 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

2x DVI 1x S-Video

Outputs

2x DVI

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

RV570

GPU Name

G84

RV570 XL

GPU Variant

G84-303-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 (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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