AMD Radeon HD 6620G vs NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GS

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon HD 6620G and NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GS videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory, Video outputs and ports. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: Geekbench - OpenCL, GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps), PassMark - G2D Mark, PassMark - G3D Mark.

AMD Radeon HD 6620G

NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GS

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon HD 6620G

Videocard is newer: launch date 4 year(s) 1 month(s) later
25x more pipelines: 400 vs 16
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 32 nm vs 80 nm
Around 3% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 103 vs 100
3.7x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 341 vs 92

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	15 June 2011 vs 17 April 2007
Pipelines	400 vs 16
Manufacturing process technology	32 nm vs 80 nm
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark	103 vs 100
PassMark - G3D Mark	341 vs 92

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GS

Around 35% higher core clock speed: 540 MHz vs 400 MHz

Core clock speed	540 MHz vs 400 MHz

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon HD 6620G
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GS

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

103

100

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

341

Name	AMD Radeon HD 6620G	NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GS
Geekbench - OpenCL	962
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)	790
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	790
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	1755
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	1755
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	3310
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	3310
PassMark - G2D Mark	103	100
PassMark - G3D Mark	341	92

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD Radeon HD 6620G	NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GS
Essentials
Architecture	Terascale 2	Tesla
Code name	Llano	G84
Launch date	15 June 2011	17 April 2007
Place in performance rating	1348	1351
Type	Laptop	Desktop
Technical info
Core clock speed	400 MHz	540 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	32 nm	80 nm
Pipelines	400	16
Transistor count	1000 Million	289 million
Floating-point performance		38.08 gflops
Texture fill rate		4.32 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)		47 Watt
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Laptop size	medium sized
Interface		PCIe 1.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors		None
API support
DirectX	11	10.0
OpenGL		3.3
Memory
Shared memory	1
Maximum RAM amount		512 MB
Memory bandwidth		12.8 GB / s
Memory bus width		128 Bit
Memory clock speed		800 MHz
Memory type		DDR2
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors		1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video