AMD Radeon 610M (Mendocino) vs NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GS

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon 610M (Mendocino) and NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GS videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory, Technologies. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: Geekbench - OpenCL, PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark, GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps).

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon 610M (Mendocino)

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 15 year(s) 4 month(s) later
  • 3.3x more core clock speed: 1500 MHz vs 450 MHz
  • 4222.2x more texture fill rate: 15.20 GTexel/s vs 3.6 GTexel / s
  • 8x more pipelines: 128 vs 16
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 6 nm vs 80 nm
  • Around 33% lower typical power consumption: 15 Watt vs 20 Watt
Launch date 20 Sep 2022 vs 1 May 2007
Core clock speed 1500 MHz vs 450 MHz
Texture fill rate 15.20 GTexel/s vs 3.6 GTexel / s
Pipelines 128 vs 16
Manufacturing process technology 6 nm vs 80 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 15 Watt vs 20 Watt

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon 610M (Mendocino)
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GS

Name AMD Radeon 610M (Mendocino) NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GS
Geekbench - OpenCL 4930
PassMark - G3D Mark 70
PassMark - G2D Mark 35
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 1095
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 1095

Compare specifications (specs)

AMD Radeon 610M (Mendocino) NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GS

Essentials

Architecture RDNA 2.0 Tesla
Code name Mendocino G86
Launch date 20 Sep 2022 1 May 2007
Place in performance rating 1651 1650
Type Laptop

Technical info

Boost clock speed 1900 MHz
Compute units 2
Core clock speed 1500 MHz 450 MHz
Manufacturing process technology 6 nm 80 nm
Peak Double Precision (FP64) Performance 30.40 GFLOPS (1:16)
Peak Half Precision (FP16) Performance 972.8 GFLOPS (2:1)
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance 486.4 GFLOPS
Pipelines 128 16
Pixel fill rate 7.600 GPixel/s
Texture fill rate 15.20 GTexel/s 3.6 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 15 Watt 20 Watt
Floating-point performance 28.8 gflops
Transistor count 210 million

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors Portable Device Dependent No outputs

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Form factor IGP
Interface PCIe 4.0 x8 MXM-II
Supplementary power connectors None
Laptop size medium sized

API support

DirectX 12 Ultimate (12_2) 10.0
OpenCL 2.0
OpenGL 4.6 3.3
Shader Model 6.7
Vulkan

Memory

Maximum RAM amount System Shared 512 MB
Memory bandwidth System Dependent 12.8 GB / s
Memory bus width System Shared 128 Bit
Memory clock speed System Shared 800 MHz
Memory type System Shared GDDR3, GDDR2
Shared memory 0

Technologies

HDR (High Dynamic-Range Lighting)
PCI-E 16x
PowerMizer 7.0