ATI Radeon X1600 vs NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition

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Graphics Processor

GPU model RV516 G84
Architecture R500 Tesla
Foundry UMC TSMC
Manufacturing process 80 nm 80 nm
Number of transistors 107 million 289 million
Die size 100 mm² 169 mm²
GPU variant NB8P-GS

Graphics Card

Release date 2007
Generation Radeon R500 PCIe
Production End-of-life
Interface PCIe 1.0 x16
Reviews 64 in our database
Predecessor Radeon R400 PCIe
Successor Radeon R600

Clocks

GPU clock 635 MHz 470 MHz
Memory clock 400 MHz 800 Mbps effective 635 MHz 1270 Mbps effective
Shader clock 940 MHz

Memory Configuration

Memory size 512 MB 512 MB
Memory type DDR2 GDDR3
Memory bus width 128 bit 128 bit
Bandwidth 12.80 GB/s 20.32 GB/s

Render Configuration

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

Performance

Pixel rate 2.540 GPixel/s 3.760 GPixel/s
Vertex rate 317.5 MVertices/s
Texture rate 2.540 GTexel/s 7.520 GTexel/s
FP32 (float) performance 60.16 GFLOPS

Dimensions & Outputs

Slot width Single-slot MXM Module
TDP 27 W 20 W
Suggested PSU 200 W
Outputs 2x DVI1x S-Video No outputs
Power connectors None

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

Mobile graphics

Release date Oct 5th, 2007
Generation GeForce 8M (8000M)
Production End-of-life
Interface MXM-II
Predecessor GeForce Go 7
Successor GeForce 9M

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