ATI Radeon X800 PRO AGP vs NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition

Table of Contents

Graphics Processor

GPU model R420 G84
GPU variant R420 PRO (215RAACGA11F) NB8P-GS
Architecture R400 Tesla
Foundry TSMC TSMC
Manufacturing process 130 nm 80 nm
Number of transistors 160 million 289 million
Die size 281 mm² 169 mm²

Graphics Card

Release date May 1st, 2004
Generation Radeon R400 AGP
Production End-of-life
Interface AGP 8x
Reviews 226 in our database
Predecessor Radeon R300
Successor Radeon R500 AGP

Clocks

GPU clock 475 MHz 470 MHz
Memory clock 450 MHz 900 Mbps effective 635 MHz 1270 Mbps effective
Shader clock 940 MHz

Memory Configuration

Memory size 256 MB 512 MB
Memory type GDDR3 GDDR3
Memory bus width 256 bit 128 bit
Bandwidth 28.80 GB/s 20.32 GB/s

Render Configuration

Pixel shaders 12
Vertex shaders 6
TMUs 12 16
ROPs 12 8
Shading units 32
SM count 4
Cache L2 32 KB

Performance

Pixel rate 5.700 GPixel/s 3.760 GPixel/s
Vertex rate 712.5 MVertices/s
Texture rate 5.700 GTexel/s 7.520 GTexel/s
FP32 (float) performance 60.16 GFLOPS

Dimensions & Outputs

Slot width Single-slot MXM Module
TDP 48 W 20 W
Suggested PSU 200 W
Outputs 1x DVI1x VGA1x S-Video No outputs
Power connectors 1x Molex

API Support & Features

DirectX 9.0b (9_2) 11.1 (10_0)
OpenGL 2.1 3.3
OpenCL 1.1
Vulkan
Pixel shader 2.0b
Vertex shader 2.0b
CUDA 1.1
Shader model 4.0

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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