NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition vs ATI Radeon 9200

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition and ATI Radeon 9200 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.

NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition

ATI Radeon 9200

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition

Videocard is newer: launch date 3 year(s) 11 month(s) later
2.4x more core clock speed: 600 MHz vs 250 MHz
9.6x more texture fill rate: 9.6 GTexel / s vs 1 GTexel / s
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 80 nm vs 150 nm
3.8x more memory clock speed: 1500 MHz vs 400 MHz

Launch date	17 April 2007 vs 1 May 2003
Core clock speed	600 MHz vs 250 MHz
Texture fill rate	9.6 GTexel / s vs 1 GTexel / s
Manufacturing process technology	80 nm vs 150 nm
Memory clock speed	1500 MHz vs 400 MHz

Reasons to consider the ATI Radeon 9200

Around 68% lower typical power consumption: 28 Watt vs 47 Watt

Thermal Design Power (TDP)	28 Watt vs 47 Watt

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition
GPU 2: ATI Radeon 9200

Name	NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition	ATI Radeon 9200
PassMark - G3D Mark		4
PassMark - G2D Mark		135

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition	ATI Radeon 9200
Essentials
Architecture	Tesla	Rage 7
Code name	G84	RV280
Launch date	17 April 2007	1 May 2003
Launch price (MSRP)	$159
Place in performance rating	not rated	1230
Type	Desktop	Desktop
Technical info
Core clock speed	600 MHz	250 MHz
Floating-point performance	92.8 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	80 nm	150 nm
Pipelines	32
Texture fill rate	9.6 GTexel / s	1 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	47 Watt	28 Watt
Transistor count	289 million	36 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	2x DVI	1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 1.0 x16	AGP 8x
Length	170 mm
Supplementary power connectors	None	None
API support
DirectX	10.0	8.1
OpenGL	3.3	1.4
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	128 MB	128 MB
Memory bandwidth	24 GB / s	6.4 GB / s
Memory bus width	128 Bit	128 Bit
Memory clock speed	1500 MHz	400 MHz
Memory type	GDDR3	DDR