ATI Radeon X1950 PRO vs NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT

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Graphics Processor

GPU model RV570 G84
GPU variant RV570 XT (215PADAKA12FG) G84-303-A2
Architecture R500 Tesla
Foundry TSMC TSMC
Manufacturing process 80 nm 80 nm
Number of transistors 330 million 289 million
Die size 230 mm² 169 mm²

Graphics Card

Release date Oct 1st, 2006 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 144 in our database 183 in our database
Predecessor Radeon R400 PCIe GeForce 7 PCIe
Successor Radeon R600 GeForce 9
Launch price 159 USD

Clocks

GPU clock 575 MHz 540 MHz
Memory clock 690 MHz 1380 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 44.16 GB/s 22.40 GB/s

Render Configuration

Pixel shaders 36
Vertex shaders 8
TMUs 12 16
ROPs 12 8
Shading units 32
SM count 4
Cache L2 32 KB

Performance

Pixel rate 6.900 GPixel/s 4.320 GPixel/s
Vertex rate 1.150 GVertices/s
Texture rate 6.900 GTexel/s 8.640 GTexel/s
FP32 (float) performance 76.16 GFLOPS

Dimensions & Outputs

Slot width Single-slot Single-slot
Length 228 mm 9 inches 170 mm 6.7 inches
Width 111 mm 4.4 inches
TDP 66 W 47 W
Suggested PSU 250 W 200 W
Outputs 2x DVI1x S-Video 2x DVI1x S-Video
Power connectors 1x 6-pin None
Board number A999-31 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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