AMD Radeon 550X vs NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition

VS

AMD Radeon 550X

NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon 550X 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

AMD Radeon 550X 's Advantages

Released 11 years and 11 months late

Boost Clock1218MHz

More VRAM (2GB vs 128GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (112.0GB/s vs 24.00GB/s)

480 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition 's Advantages

Lower TDP (47W vs 50W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon 550X +1240%

1.247 TFLOPS

GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition

0.093 TFLOPS

Radeon 550X

VS

GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition

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

750 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

128MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

112.0GB/s

Bandwidth

24.00GB/s

Render Config

8

Compute Units

-

SM Count

4

512

Shading Units

32

TMUs

16

ROPs

8

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

512 KB

L2 Cache

32 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

19.49 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

4.800 GPixel/s

38.98 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

9.600 GTexel/s

1247 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

1247 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

92.80 GFLOPS

77.95 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

50W

TDP

47W

250 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

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

Outputs

2x DVI

None

Power Connectors

None

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

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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