ATI Radeon X1900 XT vs NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT

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Graphics Processor

GPU model R580 G84
GPU variant R580 XT (215BADBKA22FG) G84-303-A2
Architecture R500 Tesla
Foundry TSMC TSMC
Manufacturing process 90 nm 80 nm
Number of transistors 384 million 289 million
Die size 352 mm² 169 mm²

Graphics Card

Release date 2006 Apr 17th, 2007
Generation Radeon R500 PCIe GeForce 8
Production End-of-life End-of-life
Launch price 299 USD 159 USD
Interface PCIe 1.0 x16 PCIe 1.0 x16
Reviews 115 in our database 183 in our database
Predecessor Radeon R400 PCIe GeForce 7 PCIe
Successor Radeon R600 GeForce 9

Clocks

GPU clock 625 MHz 540 MHz
Memory clock 725 MHz 1450 Mbps effective 700 MHz 1400 Mbps effective
Shader clock 1190 MHz

Memory Configuration

Memory size 256 MB 512 MB
Memory type GDDR3 GDDR3
Memory bus width 256 bit 128 bit
Bandwidth 46.40 GB/s 22.40 GB/s

Render Configuration

Pixel shaders 48
Vertex shaders 8
TMUs 16 16
ROPs 16 8
Shading units 32
SM count 4
Cache L2 32 KB

Performance

Pixel rate 10.00 GPixel/s 4.320 GPixel/s
Vertex rate 1.250 GVertices/s
Texture rate 10.00 GTexel/s 8.640 GTexel/s
FP32 (float) performance 76.16 GFLOPS

Dimensions & Outputs

Slot width Dual-slot Single-slot
Length 242 mm 9.5 inches 170 mm 6.7 inches
TDP 100 W 47 W
Suggested PSU 300 W 200 W
Outputs 2x DVI1x S-Video 2x DVI1x S-Video
Power connectors 1x 6-pin None
Board number A520 P402, P403

API Support & Features

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

Other Features

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