AMD Radeon 530 vs NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GS

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon 530 and NVIDIA GeForce 8600 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: PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark, Geekbench - OpenCL, GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps), 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score.

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon 530

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 10 year(s) 0 month(s) later
  • Around 90% higher core clock speed: 1024 MHz vs 540 MHz
  • 5689.8x more texture fill rate: 24.58 GTexel/s vs 4.32 GTexel / s
  • 24x more pipelines: 384 vs 16
  • 21x better floating-point performance: 800 GFLOPs vs 38.08 gflops
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 28 nm vs 80 nm
  • 8x more maximum memory size: 4 GB vs 512 MB
  • 5.6x more memory clock speed: 4500 MHz vs 800 MHz
  • 11.2x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 1030 vs 92
  • Around 74% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 174 vs 100
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 18 April 2017 vs 17 April 2007
Core clock speed 1024 MHz vs 540 MHz
Texture fill rate 24.58 GTexel/s vs 4.32 GTexel / s
Pipelines 384 vs 16
Floating-point performance 800 GFLOPs vs 38.08 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 28 nm vs 80 nm
Maximum memory size 4 GB vs 512 MB
Memory clock speed 4500 MHz vs 800 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark 1030 vs 92
PassMark - G2D Mark 174 vs 100

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GS

  • Around 6% lower typical power consumption: 47 Watt vs 50 Watt
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 47 Watt vs 50 Watt

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon 530
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GS

PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
1030
92
PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
174
100
Name AMD Radeon 530 NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GS
PassMark - G3D Mark 1030 92
PassMark - G2D Mark 174 100
Geekbench - OpenCL 5014
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 2021
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 2246
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 3355
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 2021
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 2246
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3355
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score 506

Compare specifications (specs)

AMD Radeon 530 NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GS

Essentials

Architecture GCN Tesla
Code name Meso G84
Design Radeon 500 Series
GCN generation 3rd Gen
Launch date 18 April 2017 17 April 2007
Place in performance rating 1099 1376
Type Desktop, Laptop Desktop

Technical info

Boost clock speed 1024 MHz
Compute units 6
Core clock speed 1024 MHz 540 MHz
Floating-point performance 800 GFLOPs 38.08 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 28 nm 80 nm
Pipelines 384 16
Pixel fill rate 8.20 GP/s
Render output units 8
Stream Processors 320/384
Texture fill rate 24.58 GTexel/s 4.32 GTexel / s
Texture Units 20/24
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 50 Watt 47 Watt
Transistor count 289 million

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors 1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x VGA 1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
DisplayPort support
Dual-link DVI support
HDMI
VGA

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Interface PCIe 3.0 x8 PCIe 1.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors None None

API support

DirectX 12 10.0
OpenCL 2.0
OpenGL 4.5 3.3
Vulkan

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 4 GB 512 MB
Memory bandwidth 48 GB/s 12.8 GB / s
Memory bus width 64 bit 128 Bit
Memory clock speed 4500 MHz 800 MHz
Memory type DDR3/GDDR5 DDR2
Shared memory 0

Technologies

4K H264 Decode
4K H264 Encode
AMD Graphics Core Next (GCN) Architecture
AMD Radeon™ ReLive
AppAcceleration
DualGraphics
Enduro
H265/HEVC Decode
H265/HEVC Encode
HDMI 4K Support
PowerTune
TressFX
Unified Video Decoder (UVD)
Video Code Engine (VCE)