NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GS vs ATI All-In-Wonder 9000 PRO

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GS and ATI All-In-Wonder 9000 PRO videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark.

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GS

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 4 year(s) 0 month(s) later
  • Around 96% higher core clock speed: 540 MHz vs 275 MHz
  • 3.9x more texture fill rate: 4.32 GTexel / s vs 1.1 GTexel / s
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 80 nm vs 150 nm
  • 4x more maximum memory size: 512 MB vs 128 MB
  • Around 78% higher memory clock speed: 800 MHz vs 450 MHz
  • 18.4x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 92 vs 5
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 17 April 2007 vs 31 March 2003
Core clock speed 540 MHz vs 275 MHz
Texture fill rate 4.32 GTexel / s vs 1.1 GTexel / s
Manufacturing process technology 80 nm vs 150 nm
Maximum memory size 512 MB vs 128 MB
Memory clock speed 800 MHz vs 450 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark 92 vs 5

Reasons to consider the ATI All-In-Wonder 9000 PRO

  • Around 3% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 103 vs 100
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark 103 vs 100

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GS
GPU 2: ATI All-In-Wonder 9000 PRO

PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
92
5
PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
100
103
Name NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GS ATI All-In-Wonder 9000 PRO
PassMark - G3D Mark 92 5
PassMark - G2D Mark 100 103

Compare specifications (specs)

NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GS ATI All-In-Wonder 9000 PRO

Essentials

Architecture Tesla Rage 7
Code name G84 RV250
Launch date 17 April 2007 31 March 2003
Place in performance rating 1349 1350
Type Desktop Desktop

Technical info

Core clock speed 540 MHz 275 MHz
Floating-point performance 38.08 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 80 nm 150 nm
Pipelines 16
Texture fill rate 4.32 GTexel / s 1.1 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 47 Watt
Transistor count 289 million 36 million

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors 1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video 1x DVI, 2x S-Video

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Interface PCIe 1.0 x16 AGP 8x
Supplementary power connectors None None

API support

DirectX 10.0 8.1
OpenGL 3.3 1.4

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 512 MB 128 MB
Memory bandwidth 12.8 GB / s 7.2 GB / s
Memory bus width 128 Bit 128 Bit
Memory clock speed 800 MHz 450 MHz
Memory type DDR2 DDR