ATI Radeon HD 4650 AGP vs GeForce 8600 GT

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Primary details

GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.

Place in the rankingnot rated1223
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiencyno data0.78
ArchitectureTesla (2006−2010)TeraScale (2005−2013)
GPU code nameG84RV730
Market segmentDesktopDesktop
Release date17 April 2007 (17 years ago)10 September 2008 (16 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$159 no data

Detailed specifications

General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores32320
Core clock speed540 MHz600 MHz
Number of transistors289 million514 million
Manufacturing process technology80 nm55 nm
Power consumption (TDP)47 Watt48 Watt
Texture fill rate8.64019.20
Floating-point processing power0.07616 TFLOPS0.384 TFLOPS
ROPs88
TMUs1632

Form factor & compatibility

Information on compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

InterfacePCIe 1.0 x16AGP 8x
Length170 mmno data
Width1-slot1-slot
Supplementary power connectorsNoneno data
SLI options+-

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory typeGDDR3DDR2
Maximum RAM amount512 MB512 MB
Standard memory config per GPU256 MBno data
Memory bus width128 Bit128 Bit
Memory clock speed700 MHz400 MHz
Memory bandwidth22.4 GB/s12.8 GB/s

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on the reviewed GPUs. As a rule, data in this section is precise only for desktop reference ones (so-called Founders Edition for NVIDIA chips). OEM manufacturers may change the number and type of output ports, while for notebook cards availability of certain video outputs ports depends on the laptop model rather than on the card itself.

Display Connectors2x DVI, 1x S-Video1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x VGA
HDMI-+

API compatibility

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX11.1 (10_0)10.1 (10_1)
Shader Model4.04.1
OpenGL2.13.3
OpenCL1.11.1
VulkanN/AN/A
CUDA1.1-

Synthetic benchmark performance

Non-gaming benchmark results comparison. The combined score is measured on a 0-100 point scale.



Passmark

This is the most ubiquitous GPU benchmark. It gives the graphics card a thorough evaluation under various types of load, providing four separate benchmarks for Direct3D versions 9, 10, 11 and 12 (the last being done in 4K resolution if possible), and few more tests engaging DirectCompute capabilities.

8600 GT 123
ATI HD 4650 AGP 207
+68.3%

Pros & cons summary


Recency 17 April 2007 10 September 2008
Chip lithography 80 nm 55 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 47 Watt 48 Watt

8600 GT has 2.1% lower power consumption.

ATI HD 4650 AGP, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 1 year, and a 45.5% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between GeForce 8600 GT and Radeon HD 4650 AGP. We've got no test results to judge.


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