AMD Radeon HD 8280E vs NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon HD 8280E and NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS 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 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps).

AMD Radeon HD 8280E

NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon HD 8280E

Videocard is newer: launch date 6 year(s) 0 month(s) later
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 28 nm vs 80 nm
4x lower typical power consumption: 15 Watt vs 60 Watt
Around 50% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 256 vs 171
3x better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 81 vs 27

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	23 April 2013 vs 17 April 2007
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm vs 80 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	15 Watt vs 60 Watt
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	256 vs 171
PassMark - G2D Mark	81 vs 27

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS

Around 50% higher core clock speed: 675 MHz vs 450 MHz

Core clock speed	675 MHz vs 450 MHz

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon HD 8280E
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

256

171

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

Name	AMD Radeon HD 8280E	NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS
PassMark - G3D Mark	256	171
PassMark - G2D Mark	81	27
Geekbench - OpenCL	1210
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)		10
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)		10
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)		1728
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)		1728

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD Radeon HD 8280E	NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS
Essentials
Architecture	GCN 2.0	Tesla
Code name	Kalindi	G84
Launch date	23 April 2013	17 April 2007
Place in performance rating	1547	1544
Type	Desktop	Desktop
Launch price (MSRP)		$199
Technical info
Core clock speed	450 MHz	675 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	80 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	15 Watt	60 Watt
Transistor count	1,178 million	289 million
Floating-point performance		92.8 gflops
Pipelines		32
Texture fill rate		10.8 billion / sec
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	2x DVI, 1x S-Video
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	IGP	PCIe 1.0 x16
Length		198 mm
Supplementary power connectors		1x 6-pin
API support
DirectX	12.0 (12_0)	10.0
OpenGL	4.5	2.1
Memory
Maximum RAM amount		256 MB
Memory bandwidth		32 GB / s
Memory bus width		128 Bit
Memory clock speed		1000 MHz
Memory type		GDDR3
Standard memory config per GPU		256 MB
Technologies
SLI