NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GS vs ATI Radeon IGP 320M

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GS and ATI Radeon IGP 320M videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark.

NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GS

ATI Radeon IGP 320M

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GS

Videocard is newer: launch date 4 year(s) 6 month(s) later
3.4x more core clock speed: 540 MHz vs 160 MHz
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 80 nm vs 180 nm
23x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 92 vs 4

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	17 April 2007 vs 5 October 2002
Core clock speed	540 MHz vs 160 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	80 nm vs 180 nm
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	92 vs 4

Reasons to consider the ATI Radeon IGP 320M

Around 1% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 101 vs 100

Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark	101 vs 100

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GS
GPU 2: ATI Radeon IGP 320M

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

100

101

Name	NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GS	ATI Radeon IGP 320M
PassMark - G3D Mark	92	4
PassMark - G2D Mark	100	101

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GS	ATI Radeon IGP 320M
Essentials
Architecture	Tesla	Rage 7
Code name	G84	RS320
Launch date	17 April 2007	5 October 2002
Place in performance rating	1349	1358
Type	Desktop	Laptop
Technical info
Core clock speed	540 MHz	160 MHz
Floating-point performance	38.08 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	80 nm	180 nm
Pipelines	16
Texture fill rate	4.32 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	47 Watt
Transistor count	289 million	30 million
Boost clock speed		160 MHz
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video	No outputs
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 1.0 x16	AGP 4x
Supplementary power connectors	None	None
API support
DirectX	10.0	7.0
OpenGL	3.3	1.4
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
Shared memory		yes