NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS
VS
ATI Radeon HD 5450
NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS
VS
ATI Radeon HD 5450

General info

The main nomenclature characteristics of video cards NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS and ATI Radeon HD 5450. Pay attention to the position in the performance rating to choose the best one.

1057
Place in performance rating
1084
2.82
Value for money (0-100)
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Tesla
Architecture
TeraScale 2
G84
Code name
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Desktop
Type
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17 April 2007 (14 years ago)
Release date
4 February 2010 (11 years ago)
$199
Launch price (MSRP)
no data
$70 (0.4x MSRP)
Price now
$102
0.06
Value for money
no data
G84
GPU code name
Cedar
Desktop
Market segment
Desktop

Technical specs

Choose the best graphics card between NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS and ATI Radeon HD 5450 based on manufacturing process, power consumption, and base frequency and overclocking potential of the GPU.

32
Pipelines
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675 MHz
Core clock speed
650 MHz
289 million
Transistor count
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80 nm
Manufacturing process technology
40 nm
60 Watt
Power consumption (TDP)
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10.8 billion/sec
Texture fill rate
5.200
92.8 gflops
Floating-point performance
104 gflops
32
Pipelines / CUDA cores
80
289 million
Number of transistors
292 million
60 Watt
Thermal design power (TDP)
19 Watt

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Additional technical information, does not greatly affect the performance rating when comparing the NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS and ATI Radeon HD 5450.

PCIe 1.0 x16
Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
198 mm
Length
170 mm
1x 6-pin
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 GTS and ATI Radeon HD 5450 can be seen in this section.

GDDR3
Memory type
DDR2
256 MB
Maximum RAM amount
2 GB
128 Bit
Memory bus width
64 Bit
1000 MHz
Memory clock speed
800 MHz
32 GB/s
Memory bandwidth
6.4 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 GTS and ATI Radeon HD 5450, the size and number of monitors.

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

The difference in supported APIs is NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS and ATI Radeon HD 5450. Hardware support (API) is not considered in synthetic benchmarks and performance tests.

11.1 (10_0)
DirectX
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2.1
OpenGL
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Gaming performance

Select form the list the required name to identify gaming performance for NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS and ATI Radeon HD 5450 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 GTS or ATI Radeon HD 5450 good for gaming.


low
1280x720
med.
1920x1080
high
1920x1080
ultra
1920x1080
QHD
2560x1440
4K
3840x2160
Horizon Zero Dawn (2020) NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS
ATI Radeon HD 5450
Death Stranding (2020) NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS
ATI Radeon HD 5450
F1 2020 (2020) NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS
ATI Radeon HD 5450
Gears Tactics (2020) NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS
ATI Radeon HD 5450
Doom Eternal (2020) NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS
ATI Radeon HD 5450
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 GTS

0.29% faster in synthetic tests

Cheaper ($70 (0.4x MSRP) vs $102)

More maximum RAM amount (256 MB vs 2 GB)

More memory bandwidth (32 GB/s vs 6.4 GB/s)

Advantages of ATI Radeon HD 5450

Finer manufacturing process technology (40 nm vs 80 nm)

So, NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS or ATI Radeon HD 5450?

Judging by the results of synthetic and gaming tests, we recommend NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS .

NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS versus ATI Radeon HD 5450 performance benchmarks comparison

User rating

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