AMD Radeon 550X vs NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GS

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

Main Differences

AMD Radeon 550X 's Advantages

Released 11 years and 11 months late

Boost Clock1218MHz

Larger VRAM bandwidth (112.0GB/s vs 12.80GB/s)

496 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GS 's Advantages

Lower TDP (47W vs 50W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon 550X +3181%

1.247 TFLOPS

GeForce 8600 GS

0.038 TFLOPS

Radeon 550X

VS

GeForce 8600 GS

Graphics Card

Mar 2019

Release Date

Apr 2007

Polaris

Generation

GeForce 8

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 1.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1082 MHz

Base Clock

-

1218 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

400 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR2

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

112.0GB/s

Bandwidth

12.80GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

2

8

Compute Units

-

512

Shading Units

16

32

TMUs

8

16

ROPs

8

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

512 KB

L2 Cache

32 KB

Theoretical Performance

19.49 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

4.320 GPixel/s

38.98 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

4.320 GTexel/s

1247 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

1247 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

38.08 GFLOPS

77.95 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

Lexa

GPU Name

G84

Lexa PRO (215-0904018)

GPU Variant

-

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

1x DVI 1x VGA 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

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

1.1

6.4

Shader Model

4.0

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