GeForce 8600 GT and Radeon X1550 PCI - video card comparison
GeForce 8600 GT
Radeon X1550 PCI
Architecture
Tesla (2006−2010)
Ultra-Threaded SE
GPU code name
G84
RV516
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
April 2007
2007
Interface
PCIe 1.0 x16
PCI
Supplementary power connectors
None
None
SLI options
+
-
Core clock speed
540 MHz
452 MHz
Floating-point performance
76.16 gflops
-
Manufacturing process technology
80 nm
90 nm
Number of transistors
289 million
105 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
32
-
Power consumption (TDP)
47 Watt
27 Watt
Texture fill rate
8.6 billion/sec
1.808
Memory type
GDDR3
DDR2
Maximum RAM amount
512 MB
256 MB
Memory bus width
128 Bit
64 Bit
Memory clock speed
700 MHz
532 MBps
Memory bandwidth
22.4 GB/s
4.256 GB/s
Standard memory config per GPU
256 MB
-
Display Connectors
2x DVI, 1x S-Video
1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
DirectX
11.1 (10_0)
9.0c (9_3)
CUDA
1.1
-
OpenCL
1.1
N/A
OpenGL
2.1
2.1
Shader Model
4.0
3.0
Vulkan
N/A
N/A