ATI Mobility Radeon X1600 vs NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS Mac Edition

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Table of Contents

Graphics Processor
Mobile graphics
Clocks
Memory Configuration
Render Configuration
Performance
Dimensions & Outputs
API Support & Features
Other Features
Graphics Card

Graphics Processor

GPU model	M56	G84
GPU variant	M56 X1600 (216PLAKB26FG)	G84-400-A2
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

Mobile graphics

Release date	Feb 1st, 2006	—
Generation	M5x (Mobility X1)	—
Production	End-of-life	—
Interface	PCIe 1.0 x16	—
Reviews	2 in our database	—
Predecessor	M2x	—
Successor	M6x	—

Clocks

GPU clock	450 MHz	675 MHz
Memory clock	470 MHz 940 Mbps effective	1008 MHz 2 Gbps effective
Shader clock	—	1450 MHz

Memory Configuration

Memory size	256 MB	512 MB
Memory type	GDDR3	GDDR3
Memory bus width	128 bit	128 bit
Bandwidth	15.04 GB/s	32.26 GB/s

Render Configuration

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

Performance

Pixel rate	1.800 GPixel/s	5.400 GPixel/s
Vertex rate	562.5 MVertices/s	—
Texture rate	1.800 GTexel/s	10.80 GTexel/s
FP32 (float) performance	—	92.80 GFLOPS

Dimensions & Outputs

TDP	unknown	75 W
Outputs	No outputs	2x DVI
Slot width	—	Single-slot
Suggested PSU	—	250 W
Power connectors	—	1x 6-pin
Board number	—	P401

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

Graphics Card

Release date	—	Sep 21st, 2007
Generation	—	GeForce 8
Production	—	End-of-life
Interface	—	PCIe 1.0 x16
Reviews	—	183 in our database
Predecessor	—	GeForce 7 PCIe
Successor	—	GeForce 9

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