GeForce 8600M GS vs ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4550

Place in the ranking	1302	1380
Place by popularity	not in top-100	not in top-100
Power efficiency	no data	0.80
Architecture	Terascale 1 (2010)	Tesla (2006−2010)
GPU code name	M92	G86
Market segment	Laptop	Laptop
Release date	1 January 2010 (15 years ago)	1 May 2007 (17 years ago)

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	80	16
Core clock speed	550 MHz	450 MHz
Number of transistors	242 million	210 million
Manufacturing process technology	55 nm	80 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	no data	20 Watt
Texture fill rate	4.400	3.600
Floating-point processing power	0.088 TFLOPS	0.0288 TFLOPS
ROPs	4	4
TMUs	8	8

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).

Laptop size	no data	medium sized
Interface	MXM-II	MXM-II
Supplementary power connectors	None	no data

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	GDDR3, DDR2, DDR3	DDR2
Maximum RAM amount	512 MB	512 MB
Memory bus width	64 Bit	128 Bit
Memory clock speed	700 MHz	400 MHz
Memory bandwidth	11.2 GB/s	12.8 GB/s
Shared memory	-	-

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

No outputs

API and SDK compatibility

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

DirectX	10.1 (10_1)	11.1 (10_0)
Shader Model	4.1	4.0
OpenGL	3.3	3.3
OpenCL	1.1	1.1
Vulkan	N/A	N/A
CUDA	-	1.1

Gaming performance

Let's see how good the compared graphics cards are for gaming. Particular gaming benchmark results are measured in FPS.

Average FPS across all PC games

Here are the average frames per second in a large set of popular games across different resolutions:

Full HD

10
+66.7%

6−7

−66.7%

FPS performance in popular games

Full HD
Low Preset

Counter-Strike 2	10−12 +0%	10−12 +0%
Cyberpunk 2077	3−4 +50%	2−3 −50%

Full HD
Medium Preset

Counter-Strike 2	10−12 +0%	10−12 +0%
Cyberpunk 2077	3−4 +50%	2−3 −50%
Forza Horizon 4	6−7 +20%	5−6 −20%
Red Dead Redemption 2	4−5 +0%	4−5 +0%

Full HD
High Preset

Counter-Strike 2	10−12 +0%	10−12 +0%
Cyberpunk 2077	3−4 +50%	2−3 −50%
Far Cry 5	7−8 +0%	7−8 +0%
Forza Horizon 4	6−7 +20%	5−6 −20%
PLAYERUNKNOWN'S BATTLEGROUNDS	7−8 +16.7%	6−7 −16.7%
Red Dead Redemption 2	4−5 +0%	4−5 +0%
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt	5−6 +25%	4−5 −25%
World of Tanks	12−14 +18.2%	10−12 −18.2%

Full HD
Ultra Preset

Counter-Strike 2	10−12 +0%	10−12 +0%
Cyberpunk 2077	3−4 +50%	2−3 −50%
Far Cry 5	7−8 +0%	7−8 +0%
Forza Horizon 4	6−7 +20%	5−6 −20%
PLAYERUNKNOWN'S BATTLEGROUNDS	7−8 +16.7%	6−7 −16.7%

1440p
High Preset

Counter-Strike 2	3−4 +0%	3−4 +0%
PLAYERUNKNOWN'S BATTLEGROUNDS	2−3 +100%	1−2 −100%

1440p
Ultra Preset

Cyberpunk 2077	3−4 +0%	3−4 +0%
Far Cry 5	4−5 +0%	4−5 +0%
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt	4−5 +0%	4−5 +0%
Valorant	5−6 +25%	4−5 −25%

4K
High Preset

Dota 2	14−16 +0%	14−16 +0%
Grand Theft Auto V	14−16 +0%	14−16 +0%
PLAYERUNKNOWN'S BATTLEGROUNDS	1−2	0−1
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt	14−16 +0%	14−16 +0%