NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT vs AMD Radeon HD 8550 OEM

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NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT AMD Radeon HD 8550 OEM

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 8600 GT and 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 8550 OEM 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 60W)

AMD Radeon HD 8550 OEM 's Advantages

Released 6 years and 6 months late

More VRAM (1024GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (25.60GB/s vs 22.40GB/s)

448 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce 8600 GT

0.076 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8550 OEM +721%

0.624 TFLOPS

GeForce 8600 GT

VS

Radeon HD 8550 OEM

Graphics Card

Apr 2007

Release Date

Oct 2013

GeForce 8

Generation

Sea Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 1.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

700 MHz

Memory Clock

800 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR3

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

22.40GB/s

Bandwidth

25.60GB/s

Render Config

4

SM Count

-

Compute Units

6

32

Shading Units

480

16

TMUs

24

8

ROPs

8

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

32 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

Theoretical Performance

4.320 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

5.200 GPixel/s

8.640 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

15.60 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

76.16 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

624.0 GFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

G84

GPU Name

Turks

G84-303-A2

GPU Variant

Turks PRO (215-0803002)

Tesla

Architecture

TeraScale 2

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

80 nm

Process Size

40 nm

0.289 billion

Transistors

0.716 billion

169 mm²

Die Size

118 mm²

Board Design

47W

TDP

60W

200 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

2x DVI 1x S-Video

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.3a 1x VGA

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

11.1 (10_0)

DirectX

11.2 (11_0)

3.3

OpenGL

4.4

1.1

OpenCL

1.2

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

1.1

CUDA

-

4.0

Shader Model

5.0

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