GeForce 8600 GT vs Radeon RX 550

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking	542	not rated
Place by popularity	22	not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation	2.92	no data
Power efficiency	9.82	no data
Architecture	GCN 4.0 (2016−2020)	Tesla (2006−2010)
GPU code name	Lexa	G84
Market segment	Desktop	Desktop
Release date	20 April 2017 (7 years ago)	17 April 2007 (17 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)	$79	$159

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

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 cores	512	32
Core clock speed	1100 MHz	540 MHz
Boost clock speed	1183 MHz	no data
Number of transistors	2,200 million	289 million
Manufacturing process technology	14 nm	80 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	50 Watt	47 Watt
Texture fill rate	37.86	8.640
Floating-point processing power	1.211 TFLOPS	0.07616 TFLOPS
ROPs	16	8
TMUs	32	16

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).

Interface	PCIe 3.0 x8	PCIe 1.0 x16
Length	145 mm	170 mm
Width	2-slot	1-slot
Supplementary power connectors	None	None
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 type	GDDR5	GDDR3
Maximum RAM amount	4 GB	512 MB
Standard memory config per GPU	no data	256 MB
Memory bus width	128 Bit	128 Bit
Memory clock speed	1750 MHz	700 MHz
Memory bandwidth	112.0 GB/s	22.4 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 Connectors	1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort	2x DVI, 1x S-Video
HDMI	+	-

API compatibility

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

DirectX	12 (12_0)	11.1 (10_0)
Shader Model	6.4	4.0
OpenGL	4.6	2.1
OpenCL	2.0	1.1
Vulkan	1.2.131	N/A
CUDA	-	1.1

Synthetic benchmark performance

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

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Pros & cons summary

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Recency	20 April 2017	17 April 2007
Maximum RAM amount	4 GB	512 MB
Chip lithography	14 nm	80 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	50 Watt	47 Watt

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