NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT vs AMD Radeon 550X 640SP

VS

NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT

AMD Radeon 550X 640SP

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 8600 GT and 4GB VRAM Radeon 550X 640SP to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT 's Advantages

Lower TDP (47W vs 50W)

AMD Radeon 550X 640SP 's Advantages

Released 11 years late

Boost Clock1071MHz

More VRAM (4GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (48.00GB/s vs 22.40GB/s)

608 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce 8600 GT

0.076 TFLOPS

Radeon 550X 640SP +1703%

1.371 TFLOPS

GeForce 8600 GT

VS

Radeon 550X 640SP

Graphics Card

Apr 2007

Release Date

Apr 2018

GeForce 8

Generation

Polaris

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 1.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x8

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1019 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1071 MHz

700 MHz

Memory Clock

1500 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

64bit

22.40GB/s

Bandwidth

48.00GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

10

4

SM Count

-

32

Shading Units

640

16

TMUs

40

8

ROPs

16

-

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

32 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

4.320 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

17.14 GPixel/s

8.640 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

42.84 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

1371 GFLOPS

76.16 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1371 GFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

85.68 GFLOPS

Board Design

47W

TDP

50W

200 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

2x DVI 1x S-Video

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

1.2

1.1

CUDA

-

4.0

Shader Model

6.4

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