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

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon 610M (Mendocino) and NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT 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).

AMD Radeon 610M (Mendocino)

NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon 610M (Mendocino)

Videocard is newer: launch date 14 year(s) 8 month(s) later
3.2x more core clock speed: 1500 MHz vs 475 MHz
2000x more texture fill rate: 15.20 GTexel/s vs 7.6 GTexel / s
4x more pipelines: 128 vs 32
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 31 December 2007
Core clock speed	1500 MHz vs 475 MHz
Texture fill rate	15.20 GTexel/s vs 7.6 GTexel / s
Pipelines	128 vs 32
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 GT

Name	AMD Radeon 610M (Mendocino)	NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT
Geekbench - OpenCL	5019
PassMark - G3D Mark		113
PassMark - G2D Mark		28
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)		1267
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)		1267

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD Radeon 610M (Mendocino)	NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT
Essentials
Architecture	RDNA 2.0	Tesla
Code name	Mendocino	G84
Launch date	20 Sep 2022	31 December 2007
Place in performance rating	1644	1647
Type		Laptop
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1900 MHz
Compute units	2
Core clock speed	1500 MHz	475 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	32
Pixel fill rate	7.600 GPixel/s
Texture fill rate	15.20 GTexel/s	7.6 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	15 Watt	20 Watt
Floating-point performance		60.8 gflops
Transistor count		289 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	22.4 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
Gigathread technology
HDCP-capable
HDR (High Dynamic-Range Lighting)
PCI-E 16x
PowerMizer 7.0