ATI ES1000 vs NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition

Comparative analysis of ATI ES1000 and NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory.

ATI ES1000

NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition

2.4x more core clock speed: 470 MHz vs 200 MHz
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 80 nm vs 180 nm

Core clock speed	470 MHz vs 200 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	80 nm vs 180 nm

Compare specifications (specs)

	ATI ES1000	NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition
Essentials
Architecture	Rage 6	Tesla
Code name	ES1000	G84
Launch date	18 October 2007	5 October 2007
Place in performance rating	not rated	not rated
Type	Desktop	Desktop
Technical info
Core clock speed	200 MHz	470 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	180 nm	80 nm
Transistor count	8 million	289 million
Floating-point performance		60.16 gflops
Pipelines		32
Texture fill rate		7.52 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)		20 Watt
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	No outputs
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCI	MXM-II
API support
DirectX	6.0	10.0
OpenGL	1.0	3.3
Memory
Maximum RAM amount		512 MB
Memory bandwidth		20.32 GB / s
Memory bus width		128 Bit
Memory clock speed		1270 MHz
Memory type		GDDR3