GeForce GTX 550 Ti vs GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce GTX 550 Ti and 128MB VRAM GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
GeForce GTX 550 Ti Advantages
Released 3 years and 11 months late
More VRAM (1024GB vs 128GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (98.50GB/s vs 24.00GB/s)
160 additional rendering cores
GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition Advantages
Lower TDP (47W vs 116W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GTX 550 Ti
+643%
691
GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition
93
Graphics Card
Mar 2011
Release Date
Apr 2007
GeForce 500
Generation
GeForce 8
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 1.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1026 MHz
Memory Clock
750 MHz
Memory
1024MB
Memory Size
128MB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR3
192bit
Memory Bus
128bit
98.50GB/s
Bandwidth
24.00GB/s
Render Config
4
SM Count
4
192
Shading Units
32
32
TMUs
16
24
ROPs
8
64 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
-
384 KB
L2 Cache
32 KB
Theoretical Performance
7.200 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
4.800 GPixel/s
28.80 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
9.600 GTexel/s
691.2 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
92.80 GFLOPS
57.60 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
-
Board Design
116W
TDP
47W
300 W
Suggested PSU
200 W
2x DVI
1x mini-HDMI 1.3a
1x mini-HDMI 1.3a
Outputs
2x DVI
1x 6-pin
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
GF116
GPU Name
G84
GF116-400-A1
GPU Variant
G84-303-A2
Fermi 2.0
Architecture
Tesla
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
40 nm
Process Size
80 nm
1.17 billion
Transistors
0.289 billion
238 mm²
Die Size
169 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (11_0)
DirectX
11.1 (10_0)
4.6
OpenGL
3.3
1.1
OpenCL
1.1
N/A
Vulkan
N/A
2.1
CUDA
1.1
5.1
Shader Model
4.0
