ATI Radeon X1600 PRO AGP vs NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS Mac Edition

Comparative analysis of ATI Radeon X1600 PRO AGP and NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS 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 Radeon X1600 PRO AGP

NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS Mac Edition

Differences

Reasons to consider the ATI Radeon X1600 PRO AGP

Around 83% lower typical power consumption: 41 Watt vs 75 Watt

Thermal Design Power (TDP)	41 Watt vs 75 Watt

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS Mac Edition

Around 35% higher core clock speed: 675 MHz vs 500 MHz
5.4x more texture fill rate: 10.8 GTexel / s vs 2 GTexel / s
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 80 nm vs 90 nm
2x more maximum memory size: 512 MB vs 256 MB
2.6x more memory clock speed: 2016 MHz vs 780 MHz

Core clock speed	675 MHz vs 500 MHz
Texture fill rate	10.8 GTexel / s vs 2 GTexel / s
Manufacturing process technology	80 nm vs 90 nm
Maximum memory size	512 MB vs 256 MB
Memory clock speed	2016 MHz vs 780 MHz

Compare specifications (specs)

	ATI Radeon X1600 PRO AGP	NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS Mac Edition
Essentials
Architecture	R500	Tesla
Code name	RV530	G84
Launch date	1 October 2007	21 September 2007
Place in performance rating	not rated	not rated
Type	Desktop	Desktop
Technical info
Core clock speed	500 MHz	675 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	90 nm	80 nm
Texture fill rate	2 GTexel / s	10.8 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	41 Watt	75 Watt
Transistor count	157 million	289 million
Floating-point performance		92.8 gflops
Pipelines		32
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video	2x DVI
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	AGP 8x	PCIe 1.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors	None	1x 6-pin
API support
DirectX	9.0c	10.0
OpenGL	2.0	3.3
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	256 MB	512 MB
Memory bandwidth	12.48 GB / s	32.3 GB / s
Memory bus width	128 Bit	128 Bit
Memory clock speed	780 MHz	2016 MHz
Memory type	GDDR3	GDDR3