AMD Radeon RX Vega 8 vs NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GS

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon RX Vega 8 and NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GS videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, API support, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, Memory. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score, PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark.

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon RX Vega 8

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 10 year(s) 6 month(s) later
  • 32x more pipelines: 512 vs 16
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 14 nm vs 80 nm
Launch date 26 Oct 2017 vs 17 April 2007
Pipelines 512 vs 16
Manufacturing process technology 14 nm vs 80 nm

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon RX Vega 8
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GS

Name AMD Radeon RX Vega 8 NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GS
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score 1429
PassMark - G3D Mark 92
PassMark - G2D Mark 100

Compare specifications (specs)

AMD Radeon RX Vega 8 NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GS

Essentials

Architecture Vega Tesla
Code name Vega Raven Ridge G84
Launch date 26 Oct 2017 17 April 2007
Place in performance rating 1357 1354
Type Laptop Desktop

Technical info

Boost clock speed 1200 MHz
Manufacturing process technology 14 nm 80 nm
Pipelines 512 16
Core clock speed 540 MHz
Floating-point performance 38.08 gflops
Texture fill rate 4.32 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 47 Watt
Transistor count 289 million

API support

DirectX 12.1 10.0
OpenGL 3.3

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors 1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Interface PCIe 1.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors None

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