ATI Radeon X1600 XT vs NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GS

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Graphics Processor

GPU model RV530 G84
GPU variant RV530 XT (215CACAKA26FG)
Architecture R500 Tesla
Foundry TSMC TSMC
Manufacturing process 90 nm 80 nm
Number of transistors 157 million 289 million
Die size 150 mm² 169 mm²

Graphics Card

Release date Oct 1st, 2005 Apr 17th, 2007
Generation Radeon R500 PCIe GeForce 8
Production End-of-life End-of-life
Interface PCIe 1.0 x16 PCIe 1.0 x16
Reviews 64 in our database 183 in our database
Predecessor Radeon R400 PCIe GeForce 7 PCIe
Successor Radeon R600 GeForce 9

Clocks

GPU clock 590 MHz 540 MHz
Memory clock 690 MHz 1380 Mbps effective 400 MHz 800 Mbps effective
Shader clock 1190 MHz

Memory Configuration

Memory size 256 MB 512 MB
Memory type GDDR3 DDR2
Memory bus width 128 bit 128 bit
Bandwidth 22.08 GB/s 12.80 GB/s

Render Configuration

Pixel shaders 12
Vertex shaders 5
TMUs 4 8
ROPs 4 8
Shading units 16
SM count 2
Cache L2 32 KB

Performance

Pixel rate 2.360 GPixel/s 4.320 GPixel/s
Vertex rate 737.5 MVertices/s
Texture rate 2.360 GTexel/s 4.320 GTexel/s
FP32 (float) performance 38.08 GFLOPS

Dimensions & Outputs

Slot width Single-slot Single-slot
TDP 42 W 47 W
Suggested PSU 200 W 200 W
Outputs 1x DVI1x VGA1x S-Video 1x DVI1x VGA1x S-Video
Power connectors None None
Board number A671 P403

API Support & Features

DirectX 9.0c (9_3) 11.1 (10_0)
OpenGL 2.1 3.3
OpenCL 1.1
Vulkan
Shader model 3.0 4.0
CUDA 1.1

Other Features

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