NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GS vs AMD Radeon 550X

VS

NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GS

AMD Radeon 550X

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 8600 GS and 2GB VRAM Radeon 550X to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GS 's Advantages

Lower TDP (47W vs 50W)

AMD Radeon 550X 's Advantages

Released 11 years and 11 months late

Boost Clock1218MHz

More VRAM (2GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (112.0GB/s vs 12.80GB/s)

496 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce 8600 GS

0.038 TFLOPS

Radeon 550X +3181%

1.247 TFLOPS

GeForce 8600 GS

VS

Radeon 550X

Graphics Card

Apr 2007

Release Date

Mar 2019

GeForce 8

Generation

Polaris

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 1.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x8

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1082 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1218 MHz

400 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

2GB

DDR2

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

12.80GB/s

Bandwidth

112.0GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

8

2

SM Count

-

16

Shading Units

512

8

TMUs

32

8

ROPs

16

-

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

32 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

4.320 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

19.49 GPixel/s

4.320 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

38.98 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

1247 GFLOPS

38.08 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1247 GFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

77.95 GFLOPS

Board Design

47W

TDP

50W

200 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

1x DVI 1x VGA 1x S-Video

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0b 1x DisplayPort 1.4a

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

G84

GPU Name

Lexa

-

GPU Variant

Lexa PRO (215-0904018)

Tesla

Architecture

GCN 4.0

TSMC

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

80 nm

Process Size

14 nm

0.289 billion

Transistors

2.2 billion

169 mm²

Die Size

103 mm²

Graphics Features

11.1 (10_0)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

3.3

OpenGL

4.6

1.1

OpenCL

2.1

N/A

Vulkan

1.2

1.1

CUDA

-

4.0

Shader Model

6.4

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