
GeForce 8600 GTS and Radeon HD 6550D - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score GeForce 8600 GTS vs Radeon HD 6550D
GeForce 8600 GTS
153
Radeon HD 6550D
412
GeForce 8600 GTS
Radeon HD 6550D
Architecture
Tesla (2006−2010)
Terascale 2 (2009−2015)
GPU code name
G84
Llano
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
April 2007
June 2011
Interface
PCIe 1.0 x16
IGP
Supplementary power connectors
1x 6-pin
-
SLI options
+
-
Core clock speed
675 MHz
600 MHz
Floating-point performance
92.8 gflops
-
Manufacturing process technology
80 nm
32 nm
Number of transistors
289 million
1000 Million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
32
400
Power consumption (TDP)
60 Watt
65 Watt
Texture fill rate
10.8 billion/sec
12.00
Memory type
GDDR3
System Shared
Maximum RAM amount
256 MB
System Shared
Memory bus width
128 Bit
System Shared
Memory clock speed
1000 MHz
System Shared
Memory bandwidth
32 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)
11.2 (11_0)
CUDA
1.1
-
OpenCL
1.1
1.2
OpenGL
2.1
4.4
Shader Model
4.0
5.0
Vulkan
N/A
N/A