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).

AMD Radeon Vega 6 Mobile Efficient

NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS

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	1546	1545
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