AMD Radeon 660M vs NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GS

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon 660M and NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GS videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Video outputs and ports, Memory. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: Geekbench - OpenCL, PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark.

AMD Radeon 660M

NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GS

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon 660M

Videocard is newer: launch date 14 year(s) 8 month(s) later
2.8x more core clock speed: 1500 MHz vs 540 MHz
10555.6x more texture fill rate: 45.60 GTexel/s vs 4.32 GTexel / s
24x more pipelines: 384 vs 16
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 6 nm vs 80 nm
3.1x lower typical power consumption: 15 Watt vs 47 Watt

Launch date	4 Jan 2022 vs 17 April 2007
Core clock speed	1500 MHz vs 540 MHz
Texture fill rate	45.60 GTexel/s vs 4.32 GTexel / s
Pipelines	384 vs 16
Manufacturing process technology	6 nm vs 80 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	15 Watt vs 47 Watt

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon 660M
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GS

Name	AMD Radeon 660M	NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GS
Geekbench - OpenCL	13430
PassMark - G3D Mark		92
PassMark - G2D Mark		100

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD Radeon 660M	NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GS
Essentials
Architecture	RDNA 2.0	Tesla
Code name	Rembrandt	G84
Launch date	4 Jan 2022	17 April 2007
Place in performance rating	1356	1353
Type		Desktop
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1900 MHz
Compute units	6
Core clock speed	1500 MHz	540 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	6 nm	80 nm
Peak Double Precision (FP64) Performance	91.20 GFLOPS (1:16)
Peak Half Precision (FP16) Performance	2.918 TFLOPS (2:1)
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance	1459 GFLOPS
Pipelines	384	16
Pixel fill rate	30.40 GPixel/s
Texture fill rate	45.60 GTexel/s	4.32 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	15 Watt	47 Watt
Transistor count	13100 million	289 million
Floating-point performance		38.08 gflops
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Form factor	IGP
Interface	PCIe 4.0 x8	PCIe 1.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors		None
API support
DirectX	12.2	10.0
OpenCL	2.0
OpenGL	4.6	3.3
Shader Model	6.7
Vulkan
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors		1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
Memory
Maximum RAM amount		512 MB
Memory bandwidth		12.8 GB / s
Memory bus width		128 Bit
Memory clock speed		800 MHz
Memory type		DDR2