GeForce 8600 GT and Mobility Radeon HD 4550 - video card comparison
GeForce 8600 GT
Mobility Radeon HD 4550
Architecture
Tesla (2006−2010)
Terascale 1 (2008−2010)
GPU code name
G84
M92
Market segment
Desktop
Laptop
Release date
April 2007
January 2010
Interface
PCIe 1.0 x16
MXM-II
Supplementary power connectors
None
None
SLI options
+
-
Core clock speed
540 MHz
550 MHz
Floating-point performance
76.16 gflops
88 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
80 nm
55 nm
Number of transistors
289 million
242 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
32
80
Power consumption (TDP)
47 Watt
-
Texture fill rate
8.6 billion/sec
4.400
Memory type
GDDR3
GDDR3, DDR2, DDR3
Maximum RAM amount
512 MB
512 MB
Memory bus width
128 Bit
64 Bit
Memory clock speed
700 MHz
700 MHz
Memory bandwidth
22.4 GB/s
11.2 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Standard memory config per GPU
256 MB
-
Display Connectors
2x DVI, 1x S-Video
No outputs
DirectX
11.1 (10_0)
10.1 (10_1)
CUDA
1.1
-
OpenCL
1.1
1.1
OpenGL
2.1
3.3
Shader Model
4.0
4.1
Vulkan
N/A
N/A