NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition vs AMD Radeon 550

VS

NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition

AMD Radeon 550

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 128MB VRAM GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition and 2GB VRAM Radeon 550 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition 's Advantages

Lower TDP (47W vs 50W)

AMD Radeon 550 's Advantages

Released 10 years late

Boost Clock1183MHz

More VRAM (2GB vs 128GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (56.00GB/s vs 24.00GB/s)

480 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition

0.093 TFLOPS

Radeon 550 +1202%

1.211 TFLOPS

GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition

VS

Radeon 550

Graphics Card

Apr 2007

Release Date

Apr 2017

GeForce 8

Generation

Polaris

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 1.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x8

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1100 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1183 MHz

750 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

128MB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

64bit

24.00GB/s

Bandwidth

56.00GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

8

4

SM Count

-

32

Shading Units

512

16

TMUs

32

8

ROPs

16

-

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

32 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

4.800 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

18.93 GPixel/s

9.600 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

37.86 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

1211 GFLOPS

92.80 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1211 GFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

75.71 GFLOPS

Board Design

47W

TDP

50W

200 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

2x DVI

Outputs

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

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

G84

GPU Name

Lexa

G84-303-A2

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

1.3

1.1

CUDA

-

4.0

Shader Model

6.7

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