AMD Radeon R6 M335DX vs NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon R6 M335DX 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: GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark, GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps).

AMD Radeon R6 M335DX

NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon R6 M335DX

Videocard is newer: launch date 8 year(s) 7 month(s) later
Around 41% higher core clock speed: 955 MHz vs 675 MHz
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 28 nm vs 80 nm

Launch date	12 December 2015 vs 17 April 2007
Core clock speed	955 MHz vs 675 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm vs 80 nm

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon R6 M335DX
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS

Name	AMD Radeon R6 M335DX	NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)	1061
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	1061
PassMark - G3D Mark		150
PassMark - G2D Mark		29
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 R6 M335DX	NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS
Essentials
Architecture	GCN 1.0	Tesla
Code name	Jet	G84
Launch date	12 December 2015	17 April 2007
Place in performance rating	1468	1540
Type	Desktop	Desktop
Launch price (MSRP)		$199
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1030 MHz
Core clock speed	955 MHz	675 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	80 nm
Transistor count	1,040 million	289 million
Floating-point performance		92.8 gflops
Pipelines		32
Texture fill rate		10.8 billion / sec
Thermal Design Power (TDP)		60 Watt
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 (11_1)	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