Radeon HD 2600 XT and GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition - video card comparison
Radeon HD 2600 XT
GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition
Architecture
TeraScale (2005−2013)
Tesla (2006−2010)
GPU code name
RV630
G84
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
June 2007
April 2007
Interface
PCIe 1.0 x16
PCIe 1.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
None
None
Core clock speed
800 MHz
600 MHz
Floating-point performance
192 gflops
92.8 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
65 nm
80 nm
Number of transistors
390 million
289 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
120
32
Power consumption (TDP)
45 Watt
47 Watt
Texture fill rate
6.400
9.600
Memory type
GDDR3
GDDR3
Maximum RAM amount
256 MB
128 MB
Memory bus width
128 Bit
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
1400 MHz
1500 MHz
Memory bandwidth
22.4 GB/s
24 GB/s
Display Connectors
2x DVI, 1x S-Video
2x DVI
DirectX
10.0 (10_0)
11.1 (10_0)
CUDA
-
1.1
OpenCL
N/A
1.1
OpenGL
3.3
3.3
Shader Model
4.0
4.0
Vulkan
N/A
N/A