NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition vs ATI Radeon HD 4550

VS

NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition

ATI Radeon HD 4550

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 128MB VRAM GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition and 256MB VRAM Radeon HD 4550 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

Larger VRAM bandwidth (24.00GB/s vs 10.48GB/s)

ATI Radeon HD 4550 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 5 months late

More VRAM (256GB vs 128GB)

48 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (25W vs 47W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition

0.093 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 4550 +3%

0.096 TFLOPS

GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition

VS

Radeon HD 4550

Graphics Card

Apr 2007

Release Date

Sep 2008

GeForce 8

Generation

Radeon R700

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 1.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

750 MHz

Memory Clock

655 MHz

Memory

128MB

Memory Size

256MB

GDDR3

Memory Type

DDR2

128bit

Memory Bus

64bit

24.00GB/s

Bandwidth

10.48GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

1

4

SM Count

-

32

Shading Units

80

16

TMUs

8

ROPs

4

-

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

32 KB

L2 Cache

64 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

4.800 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

2.400 GPixel/s

9.600 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

4.800 GTexel/s

-

92.80 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

96.00 GFLOPS

-

Board Design

47W

TDP

25W

200 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

2x DVI

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.3a 1x DisplayPort 1.0

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

G84

GPU Name

RV710

G84-303-A2

GPU Variant

RV710 (215-0725016)

Tesla

Architecture

TeraScale

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

80 nm

Process Size

55 nm

0.289 billion

Transistors

0.242 billion

169 mm²

Die Size

73 mm²

Graphics Features

11.1 (10_0)

DirectX

10.1 (10_1)

3.3

OpenGL

3.3

1.1

OpenCL

1.1

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

1.1

CUDA

-

4.0

Shader Model

4.1

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