AMD Radeon HD 8370D IGP vs NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GS

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon HD 8370D IGP 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. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: PassMark - G2D Mark, PassMark - G3D Mark, 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).

AMD Radeon HD 8370D IGP

NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GS

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon HD 8370D IGP

Videocard is newer: launch date 6 year(s) 2 month(s) later
Around 41% higher core clock speed: 760 MHz vs 540 MHz
1407407.4x more texture fill rate: 6080 GTexel/s vs 4.32 GTexel / s
8x more pipelines: 128 vs 16
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 32 nm vs 80 nm
Around 51% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 151 vs 100
3.4x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 316 vs 92

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	July 2013 vs 17 April 2007
Core clock speed	760 MHz vs 540 MHz
Texture fill rate	6080 GTexel/s vs 4.32 GTexel / s
Pipelines	128 vs 16
Manufacturing process technology	32 nm vs 80 nm
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark	151 vs 100
PassMark - G3D Mark	316 vs 92

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GS

Around 38% lower typical power consumption: 47 Watt vs 65 Watt

Thermal Design Power (TDP)	47 Watt vs 65 Watt

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon HD 8370D IGP
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GS

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

151

100

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

316

Name	AMD Radeon HD 8370D IGP	NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GS
PassMark - G2D Mark	151	100
PassMark - G3D Mark	316	92
Geekbench - OpenCL	737
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)	359
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	359
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	1386
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	1386
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	3112
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	3112

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD Radeon HD 8370D IGP	NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GS
Essentials
Architecture	TeraScale 3	Tesla
Code name	Scrapper Lite	G84
Launch date	July 2013	17 April 2007
Place in performance rating	1379	1376
Type	Desktop	Desktop
Technical info
Compute units	2
Core clock speed	760 MHz	540 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	32 nm	80 nm
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance	194.6 GFLOPS
Pipelines	128	16
Pixel fill rate	3040 GPixel/s
Render output units	4
Texture fill rate	6080 GTexel/s	4.32 GTexel / s
Texture Units	8
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	65 Watt	47 Watt
Transistor count	1,303 million	289 million
Floating-point performance		38.08 gflops
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	IGP	PCIe 1.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors		None
API support
DirectX	11.2	10.0
OpenCL	1.2
OpenGL	4.4	3.3
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