ATI Radeon X800 GTO AGP vs NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS Mac Edition
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 256MB VRAM Radeon X800 GTO AGP and 512MB VRAM GeForce 8600 GTS Mac Edition to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
ATI Radeon X800 GTO AGP 's Advantages
Lower TDP (49W vs 75W)
NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS Mac Edition 's Advantages
More VRAM (512GB vs 256GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (32.26GB/s vs 31.36GB/s)
32 additional rendering cores
Score
Graphics Card
Nov 2007
Release Date
Sep 2007
Radeon R400 AGP
Generation
GeForce 8
Desktop
Type
Desktop
AGP 8x
Bus Interface
PCIe 1.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
-
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490 MHz
Memory Clock
1008 MHz
Memory
256MB
Memory Size
512MB
GDDR3
Memory Type
GDDR3
256bit
Memory Bus
128bit
31.36GB/s
Bandwidth
32.26GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
-
SM Count
4
-
Shading Units
32
12
TMUs
16
12
ROPs
8
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
L2 Cache
32 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
4.800 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
5.400 GPixel/s
4.800 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
10.80 GTexel/s
-
-
-
-
FP32 (float)
92.80 GFLOPS
-
-
-
Board Design
49W
TDP
75W
200 W
Suggested PSU
250 W
1x DVI
1x VGA
1x S-Video
Outputs
2x DVI
1x Molex
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
R420
GPU Name
G84
R420 GTO
GPU Variant
G84-400-A2
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
