ATI Radeon X800 GTO AGP vs NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GS
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 256MB VRAM Radeon X800 GTO 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 X800 GTO AGP 's Advantages
Released 7 months late
Larger VRAM bandwidth (31.36GB/s vs 12.80GB/s)
NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GS 's Advantages
More VRAM (512GB vs 256GB)
16 additional rendering cores
Lower TDP (47W vs 49W)
Score
Graphics Card
Nov 2007
Release Date
Apr 2007
Radeon R400 AGP
Generation
GeForce 8
Desktop
Type
Desktop
AGP 8x
Bus Interface
PCIe 1.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
-
-
490 MHz
Memory Clock
400 MHz
Memory
256MB
Memory Size
512MB
GDDR3
Memory Type
DDR2
256bit
Memory Bus
128bit
31.36GB/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
4.800 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
4.320 GPixel/s
4.800 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
4.320 GTexel/s
-
-
-
-
FP32 (float)
38.08 GFLOPS
-
-
-
Board Design
49W
TDP
47W
200 W
Suggested PSU
200 W
1x DVI
1x VGA
1x S-Video
Outputs
1x DVI
1x VGA
1x S-Video
1x Molex
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
R420
GPU Name
G84
R420 GTO
GPU Variant
-
R400
Architecture
Tesla
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
130 nm
Process Size
80 nm
0.16 billion
Transistors
0.289 billion
281 mm²
Die Size
169 mm²
Graphics Features
9.0b (9_2)
DirectX
11.1 (10_0)
2.1
OpenGL
3.3
N/A
OpenCL
1.1
N/A
Vulkan
N/A
-
CUDA
1.1
-
Shader Model
4.0
