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.

AMD Radeon RX Vega 8

NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GS

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	1352	1349
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