NVIDIA GeForce GTX 550 Ti vs NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 550 Ti NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce GTX 550 Ti and 128MB VRAM GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 550 Ti 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 11 months late

More VRAM (1024GB vs 128GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (98.50GB/s vs 24.00GB/s)

160 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition 's Advantages

Lower TDP (47W vs 116W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 550 Ti +643%

0.691 TFLOPS

GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition

0.093 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 550 Ti

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GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition

Graphics Card

Mar 2011

Release Date

Apr 2007

GeForce 500

Generation

GeForce 8

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 1.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

1026 MHz

Memory Clock

750 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

128MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

192bit

Memory Bus

128bit

98.50GB/s

Bandwidth

24.00GB/s

Render Config

4

SM Count

4

-

Compute Units

-

192

Shading Units

32

TMUs

16

24

ROPs

8

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

-

384 KB

L2 Cache

32 KB

Theoretical Performance

7.200 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

4.800 GPixel/s

28.80 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

9.600 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

691.2 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

92.80 GFLOPS

57.60 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

GF116

GPU Name

G84

GF116-400-A1

GPU Variant

G84-303-A2

Fermi 2.0

Architecture

Tesla

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

80 nm

1.17 billion

Transistors

0.289 billion

238 mm²

Die Size

169 mm²

Board Design

116W

TDP

47W

300 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

2x DVI 1x mini-HDMI 1.3a

Outputs

2x DVI

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

12 (11_0)

DirectX

11.1 (10_0)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3

1.1

OpenCL

1.1

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

2.1

CUDA

1.1

5.1

Shader Model

4.0

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