NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT
VS
ATI Radeon HD 4550
NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT
VS
ATI Radeon HD 4550

General info

The main nomenclature characteristics of video cards NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT and ATI Radeon HD 4550. Pay attention to the position in the performance rating to choose the best one.

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Place in performance rating
1010
0.71
Value for money (0-100)
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Tesla
Architecture
TeraScale
G84
Code name
RV710
Desktop
Type
Desktop
17 April 2007 (14 years ago)
Release date
30 September 2008 (13 years ago)
$159
Launch price (MSRP)
$59
$113 (0.7x MSRP)
Price now
$135 (2.3x MSRP)
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Value for money
0.02
G84
GPU code name
RV710
Desktop
Market segment
Desktop

Technical specs

Choose the best graphics card between NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT and ATI Radeon HD 4550 based on manufacturing process, power consumption, and base frequency and overclocking potential of the GPU.

32
Pipelines
80
540 MHz
Core clock speed
600 MHz
289 million
Transistor count
242 million
80 nm
Manufacturing process technology
55 nm
47 Watt
Power consumption (TDP)
25 Watt
8.6 billion/sec
Texture fill rate
4.800
76.16 gflops
Floating-point performance
96 gflops
32
Pipelines / CUDA cores
80
289 million
Number of transistors
242 million
47 Watt
Thermal design power (TDP)
25 Watt

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Additional technical information, does not greatly affect the performance rating when comparing the NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT and ATI Radeon HD 4550.

PCIe 1.0 x16
Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
170 mm
Length
168 mm
None
Supplementary power connectors
None
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SLI options
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Memory

Graphics card memory is used to store calculations. Modern software and 3D games require more and faster memory. The higher these parameters, the more productive the chip. The difference in these characteristics NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT and ATI Radeon HD 4550 can be seen in this section.

GDDR3
Memory type
DDR2
512 MB
Maximum RAM amount
256 MB
128 Bit
Memory bus width
64 Bit
700 MHz
Memory clock speed
1310 MHz
22.4 GB/s
Memory bandwidth
10.48 GB/s
256 MB
Standard memory config per GPU
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Video outputs and ports

The difference between the interfaces and ports of video cards NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT and ATI Radeon HD 4550, the size and number of monitors.

2x DVI, 1x S-Video
Display Connectors
1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort
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HDMI
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API support

The difference in supported APIs is NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT and ATI Radeon HD 4550. Hardware support (API) is not considered in synthetic benchmarks and performance tests.

11.1 (10_0)
DirectX
10.1 (10_1)
2.1
OpenGL
3.3

Gaming performance

Select form the list the required name to identify gaming performance for NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT and ATI Radeon HD 4550 graphics cards. The result shows how fast the game will run and whether it can be run on this computer. The different monitor resolutions – from low to 4K – are used for testing. Find out is the NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT or ATI Radeon HD 4550 good for gaming.


low
1280x720
med.
1920x1080
high
1920x1080
ultra
1920x1080
QHD
2560x1440
4K
3840x2160
Horizon Zero Dawn (2020) NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT
ATI Radeon HD 4550
Death Stranding (2020) NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT
ATI Radeon HD 4550
F1 2020 (2020) NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT
ATI Radeon HD 4550
Gears Tactics (2020) NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT
ATI Radeon HD 4550
Doom Eternal (2020) NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT
ATI Radeon HD 4550
Legend
5 Stutter – Insufficient data. Similar graphics cards stutter, the game is likely to show a low frame rate. There will be some lags.
May Stutter – Insufficient data. Similar graphics cards stutter, the game is likely to show a low frame rate. There will be some lags.
30 Fluent – According to the results of benchmarks the game should run at 25 frames per second (fps)
40 Fluent – According to the results of benchmarks the game should run at 35 frames per second (fps)
60 Fluent – According to the results of benchmarks the game should run at 58 frames per second (fps)
May Run Fluently – Insufficient data. Similar graphics cards show a smooth frame rate, comfortable for the game.
? Uncertain – Graphics cards testing has shown that a slower card can provide a high and stable frame rate for the same operation.
Uncertain – The work of the video card in the game is still being studied. Interpolation among analogs is not possible.
The value depicts the average frame rate. Hovering over the value, you can get individual results.

Advantages of NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT

Cheaper ($113 (0.7x MSRP) vs $135 (2.3x MSRP))

More maximum RAM amount (512 MB vs 256 MB)

More memory bandwidth (22.4 GB/s vs 10.48 GB/s)

Advantages of ATI Radeon HD 4550

0.55% faster in synthetic tests

More pipelines (80 vs 32)

Finer manufacturing process technology (55 nm vs 80 nm)

Less power consumption (25 Watt vs 47 Watt)

So, NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT or ATI Radeon HD 4550?

Judging by the results of synthetic and gaming tests, we recommend ATI Radeon HD 4550 .

NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT versus ATI Radeon HD 4550 performance benchmarks comparison

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