GeForce 8600 GT and Radeon HD 3550 - video card comparison
GeForce 8600 GT
Radeon HD 3550
Architecture
Tesla (2006−2010)
TeraScale (2005−2013)
GPU code name
G84
RV620
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
April 2007
August 2008
Interface
PCIe 1.0 x16
PCIe 2.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
None
None
SLI options
+
-
Core clock speed
540 MHz
594 MHz
Floating-point performance
76.16 gflops
47.52 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
80 nm
55 nm
Number of transistors
289 million
181 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
32
40
Power consumption (TDP)
47 Watt
30 Watt
Texture fill rate
8.6 billion/sec
2.376
Memory type
GDDR3
DDR2
Maximum RAM amount
512 MB
512 MB
Memory bus width
128 Bit
64 Bit
Memory clock speed
700 MHz
792 MHz
Memory bandwidth
22.4 GB/s
6.336 GB/s
Standard memory config per GPU
256 MB
-
Display Connectors
2x DVI, 1x S-Video
2x DisplayPort
DirectX
11.1 (10_0)
10.1 (10_1)
CUDA
1.1
-
OpenCL
1.1
N/A
OpenGL
2.1
3.3
Shader Model
4.0
4.1
Vulkan
N/A
N/A