AMD Radeon Vega 6 Mobile Efficient vs NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon Vega 6 Mobile Efficient 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: 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).

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon Vega 6 Mobile Efficient

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 11 year(s) 0 month(s) later
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 14 nm vs 80 nm
  • 4x lower typical power consumption: 15 Watt vs 60 Watt
Launch date 23 April 2018 vs 17 April 2007
Manufacturing process technology 14 nm vs 80 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 15 Watt vs 60 Watt

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS

  • 2.3x more core clock speed: 675 MHz vs 300 MHz
Core clock speed 675 MHz vs 300 MHz

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon Vega 6 Mobile Efficient
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS

Name AMD Radeon Vega 6 Mobile Efficient NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score 880
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 Vega 6 Mobile Efficient NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS

Essentials

Architecture GCN 5.0 Tesla
Code name Raven G84
Launch date 23 April 2018 17 April 2007
Place in performance rating 1545 1544
Type Desktop Desktop
Launch price (MSRP) $199

Technical info

Boost clock speed 1011 MHz
Core clock speed 300 MHz 675 MHz
Manufacturing process technology 14 nm 80 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 15 Watt 60 Watt
Transistor count 4,940 million 289 million
Floating-point performance 92.8 gflops
Pipelines 32
Texture fill rate 10.8 billion / sec

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 (12_1) 10.0
OpenGL 4.6 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