AMD Radeon R4 Graphics vs NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon R4 Graphics 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, CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s), 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).

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon R4 Graphics

• Videocard is newer: launch date 7 year(s) 1 month(s) later
• Around 19% higher core clock speed: 800 MHz vs 675 MHz
• 4x more pipelines: 128 vs 32
• 2.2x better floating-point performance: 204.8 gflops vs 92.8 gflops
• 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
• 2.1x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 337 vs 159
• 3.5x better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 99 vs 28
• 181.1x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames): 1811 vs 10
• 181.1x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps): 1811 vs 10

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS

• Around 69% higher texture fill rate: 10.8 billion / sec vs 6.4 GTexel / s
• Around 29% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames): 1728 vs 1338
• Around 29% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps): 1728 vs 1338

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon R4 Graphics
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS

PassMark - G3D Mark	GPU 1 GPU 2	337 159
PassMark - G2D Mark	GPU 1 GPU 2	99 28
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	GPU 1 GPU 2	1338 1728
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	GPU 1 GPU 2	1811 10
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	GPU 1 GPU 2	1338 1728
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	GPU 1 GPU 2	1811 10

Compare specifications (specs)