Radeon HD 4550 and GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition - video card comparison
Radeon HD 4550
GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition
Architecture
TeraScale (2005−2013)
Tesla (2006−2010)
GPU code name
RV710
G84
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
September 2008
April 2007
Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
PCIe 1.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
None
None
Core clock speed
600 MHz
600 MHz
Floating-point performance
96 gflops
92.8 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
55 nm
80 nm
Number of transistors
242 million
289 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
80
32
Power consumption (TDP)
25 Watt
47 Watt
Texture fill rate
4.800
9.600
Memory type
DDR2
GDDR3
Maximum RAM amount
256 MB
128 MB
Memory bus width
64 Bit
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
1310 MHz
1500 MHz
Memory bandwidth
10.48 GB/s
24 GB/s
Display Connectors
1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort
2x DVI
HDMI
+
-
DirectX
10.1 (10_1)
11.1 (10_0)
CUDA
-
1.1
OpenCL
1.1
1.1
OpenGL
3.3
3.3
Shader Model
4.1
4.0
Vulkan
N/A
N/A