AMD Radeon 550 vs NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT

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We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon 550 and 512MB VRAM GeForce 8600 GT to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon 550 's Advantages

Released 10 years late

Boost Clock1183MHz

Larger VRAM bandwidth (56.00GB/s vs 22.40GB/s)

480 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT 's Advantages

Lower TDP (47W vs 50W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon 550 +1493%

1.211 TFLOPS

GeForce 8600 GT

0.076 TFLOPS

Radeon 550

VS

GeForce 8600 GT

Graphics Card

Apr 2017

Release Date

Apr 2007

Polaris

Generation

GeForce 8

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 1.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1100 MHz

Base Clock

-

1183 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

700 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

64bit

Memory Bus

128bit

56.00GB/s

Bandwidth

22.40GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

4

8

Compute Units

-

512

Shading Units

32

TMUs

16

ROPs

8

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

256 KB

L2 Cache

32 KB

Theoretical Performance

18.93 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

4.320 GPixel/s

37.86 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

8.640 GTexel/s

1211 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

1211 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

76.16 GFLOPS

75.71 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

Lexa

GPU Name

G84

Lexa PRO (215-0904018)

GPU Variant

G84-303-A2

GCN 4.0

Architecture

Tesla

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

80 nm

2.2 billion

Transistors

0.289 billion

103 mm²

Die Size

169 mm²

Board Design

50W

TDP

47W

250 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

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

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

11.1 (10_0)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3

2.1

OpenCL

1.1

1.3

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

1.1

6.7

Shader Model

4.0

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