Radeon X1950 XT and GeForce 8600 GT - video card comparison
Radeon X1950 XT
GeForce 8600 GT
Architecture
R500 (2005−2007)
Tesla (2006−2010)
GPU code name
R580+
G84
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
October 2006
April 2007
Interface
PCIe 1.0 x16
PCIe 1.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
1x 6-pin
None
SLI options
-
+
Core clock speed
625 MHz
540 MHz
Floating-point performance
-
76.16 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
90 nm
80 nm
Number of transistors
384 million
289 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
-
32
Power consumption (TDP)
96 Watt
47 Watt
Texture fill rate
10.00
8.6 billion/sec
Memory type
GDDR3
GDDR3
Maximum RAM amount
256 MB
512 MB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
1800 MHz
700 MHz
Memory bandwidth
57.6 GB/s
22.4 GB/s
Standard memory config per GPU
-
256 MB
Display Connectors
2x DVI, 1x S-Video
2x DVI, 1x S-Video
DirectX
9.0c (9_3)
11.1 (10_0)
CUDA
-
1.1
OpenCL
N/A
1.1
OpenGL
2.0
2.1
Shader Model
3.0
4.0
Vulkan
N/A
N/A