NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition vs ATI Radeon X1550 PCI
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 128MB VRAM GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition and 256MB VRAM Radeon X1550 PCI to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition 's Advantages
Larger VRAM bandwidth (24.00GB/s vs 4.256GB/s)
32 additional rendering cores
ATI Radeon X1550 PCI 's Advantages
More VRAM (256GB vs 128GB)
Lower TDP (27W vs 47W)
Score
Graphics Card
Apr 2007
Release Date
Jan 2007
GeForce 8
Generation
Radeon R500 PCIe
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 1.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 1.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
-
-
750 MHz
Memory Clock
266 MHz
Memory
128MB
Memory Size
256MB
GDDR3
Memory Type
DDR2
128bit
Memory Bus
64bit
24.00GB/s
Bandwidth
4.256GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
4
SM Count
-
32
Shading Units
-
16
TMUs
4
8
ROPs
4
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
32 KB
L2 Cache
-
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
4.800 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
1.808 GPixel/s
9.600 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
1.808 GTexel/s
-
-
-
92.80 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
-
-
-
-
Board Design
47W
TDP
27W
200 W
Suggested PSU
200 W
2x DVI
Outputs
1x DVI
1x VGA
1x S-Video
None
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
G84
GPU Name
RV516
G84-303-A2
GPU Variant
-
Tesla
Architecture
R500
TSMC
Foundry
UMC
80 nm
Process Size
80 nm
0.289 billion
Transistors
0.107 billion
169 mm²
Die Size
100 mm²
Graphics Features
11.1 (10_0)
DirectX
9.0c (9_3)
3.3
OpenGL
2.1
1.1
OpenCL
N/A
N/A
Vulkan
N/A
1.1
CUDA
-
4.0
Shader Model
3.0
