GeForce 8600 GTS and Radeon X550 - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score GeForce 8600 GTS vs Radeon X550
GeForce 8600 GTS
153
Radeon X550
52
GeForce 8600 GTS
Radeon X550
Architecture
Tesla (2006−2010)
Rage 9 (2003−2008)
GPU code name
G84
RV370
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
April 2007
July 2005
Interface
PCIe 1.0 x16
PCIe 1.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
1x 6-pin
None
SLI options
+
-
Core clock speed
675 MHz
400 MHz
Floating-point performance
92.8 gflops
-
Manufacturing process technology
80 nm
110 nm
Number of transistors
289 million
107 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
32
-
Power consumption (TDP)
60 Watt
-
Texture fill rate
10.8 billion/sec
1.600
Memory type
GDDR3
DDR
Maximum RAM amount
256 MB
128 MB
Memory bus width
128 Bit
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
1000 MHz
500 MHz
Memory bandwidth
32 GB/s
8 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)
9.0
CUDA
1.1
-
OpenCL
1.1
N/A
OpenGL
2.1
2.0
Shader Model
4.0
-
Vulkan
N/A
N/A