ATI Radeon HD 5550 vs NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS Mac Edition

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ATI Radeon HD 5550

NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS Mac Edition

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM Radeon HD 5550 and 512MB VRAM GeForce 8600 GTS Mac Edition to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

ATI Radeon HD 5550 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 5 months late

Larger VRAM bandwidth (51.20GB/s vs 32.26GB/s)

288 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (39W vs 75W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 5550 +278%

0.352 TFLOPS

GeForce 8600 GTS Mac Edition

0.093 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 5550

VS

GeForce 8600 GTS Mac Edition

Graphics Card

Feb 2010

Release Date

Sep 2007

Evergreen

Generation

GeForce 8

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 1.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

800 MHz

Memory Clock

1008 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

51.20GB/s

Bandwidth

32.26GB/s

Render Config

4

Compute Units

-

SM Count

4

320

Shading Units

32

16

TMUs

16

8

ROPs

8

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

256 KB

L2 Cache

32 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

4.400 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

5.400 GPixel/s

8.800 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

10.80 GTexel/s

-

352.0 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

92.80 GFLOPS

-

Board Design

39W

TDP

75W

200 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.3a 1x VGA

Outputs

2x DVI

None

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

Redwood

GPU Name

G84

Redwood PRO2

GPU Variant

G84-400-A2

TeraScale 2

Architecture

Tesla

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

80 nm

0.627 billion

Transistors

0.289 billion

104 mm²

Die Size

169 mm²

Graphics Features

11.2 (11_0)

DirectX

11.1 (10_0)

4.4

OpenGL

3.3

1.2

OpenCL

1.1

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

1.1

5.0

Shader Model

4.0

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