NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS vs AMD Radeon RX 550 640SP

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NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS

AMD Radeon RX 550 640SP

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 256MB VRAM GeForce 8600 GTS and 2GB VRAM Radeon RX 550 640SP to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon RX 550 640SP 's Advantages

Released 10 years and 6 months late

Boost Clock1071MHz

More VRAM (2GB vs 256GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (96.00GB/s vs 32.00GB/s)

608 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce 8600 GTS

0.093 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 550 640SP +1374%

1.371 TFLOPS

GeForce 8600 GTS

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Radeon RX 550 640SP

Graphics Card

Apr 2007

Release Date

Oct 2017

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

1000 MHz

Memory Clock

1500 MHz

Memory

256MB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

32.00GB/s

Bandwidth

96.00GB/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

1024 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

5.400 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

17.14 GPixel/s

10.80 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

42.84 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

1371 GFLOPS

92.80 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1371 GFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

85.68 GFLOPS

Board Design

60W

TDP

60W

250 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

2x DVI 1x S-Video

Outputs

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

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

G84

GPU Name

Baffin

G84-400-A2

GPU Variant

Baffin LE

Tesla

Architecture

GCN 4.0

TSMC

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

80 nm

Process Size

14 nm

0.289 billion

Transistors

3 billion

169 mm²

Die Size

123 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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