AMD Radeon RX Vega 5 vs NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon RX Vega 5 and NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, API support, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, Memory, Technologies. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score, 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 RX Vega 5

NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon RX Vega 5

Videocard is newer: launch date 12 year(s) 8 month(s) later
10x more pipelines: 320 vs 32
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 7 nm vs 80 nm

Launch date	7 Jan 2020 vs 17 April 2007
Pipelines	320 vs 32
Manufacturing process technology	7 nm vs 80 nm

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon RX Vega 5
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS

Name	AMD Radeon RX Vega 5	NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score	884
PassMark - G3D Mark		159
PassMark - G2D Mark		28
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 RX Vega 5	NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS
Essentials
Architecture	Vega	Tesla
Code name	Vega	G84
Launch date	7 Jan 2020	17 April 2007
Place in performance rating	1544	1543
Type	Laptop	Desktop
Launch price (MSRP)		$199
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1400 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	7 nm	80 nm
Pipelines	320	32
Core clock speed		675 MHz
Floating-point performance		92.8 gflops
Texture fill rate		10.8 billion / sec
Thermal Design Power (TDP)		60 Watt
Transistor count		289 million
API support
DirectX	12.1	10.0
OpenGL		2.1
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors		2x DVI, 1x S-Video
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface		PCIe 1.0 x16
Length		198 mm
Supplementary power connectors		1x 6-pin
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