NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GS vs ATI Radeon HD 4350

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General info

GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.

Place in performance rankingnot ratednot rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
ArchitectureTerascale 1 (2008−2010)Tesla (2006−2010)
GPU code nameRV710G84
Market segmentDesktopDesktop
Release date30 September 2008 (15 years old)17 April 2007 (16 years old)
Current price$81 $6.66

Technical specs

General performance parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider their benchmark and gaming test results. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores8016
Core clock speed600 MHz540 MHz
Number of transistors242 million289 million
Manufacturing process technology55 nm80 nm
Power consumption (TDP)20 Watt47 Watt
Texture fill rate4.8004.320
Floating-point performance96 gflops38.08 gflops

Size and compatibility

Information on compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

InterfacePCIe 2.0 x16PCIe 1.0 x16
Width1-slot1-slot
Supplementary power connectorsNoneNone

Memory

Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory typeDDR2DDR2
Maximum RAM amount512 MB512 MB
Memory bus width64 Bit128 Bit
Memory clock speed500 MHz800 MHz
Memory bandwidth6.4 GB/s12.8 GB/s

Video outputs and ports

Types and number of video connectors present on the reviewed GPUs. As a rule, data in this section is precise only for desktop reference ones (so-called Founders Edition for NVIDIA chips). OEM manufacturers may change the number and type of output ports, while for notebook cards availability of certain video outputs ports depends on the laptop model rather than on the card itself.

Display Connectors2x DisplayPort1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video

API support

List of supported graphics and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX10.1 (10_1)11.1 (10_0)
Shader Model4.14.0
OpenGL3.33.3
OpenCL1.11.1
VulkanN/AN/A
CUDAno data1.1

Synthetic benchmark performance

Non-gaming benchmark performance comparison. The combined score is measured on a 0-100 point scale.


Passmark

This is the most ubiquitous GPU benchmark, part of Passmark PerformanceTest suite. It gives the graphics card a thorough evaluation under various types of load, providing four separate benchmarks for Direct3D versions 9, 10, 11 and 12 (the last being done in 4K resolution if possible), and few more tests engaging DirectCompute capabilities.

Benchmark coverage: 25%

ATI HD 4350 130
+42.9%
8600 GS 91

Radeon HD 4350 outperforms GeForce 8600 GS by 43% in Passmark.

Advantages and disadvantages


Recency 30 September 2008 17 April 2007
Chip lithography 55 nm 80 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 20 Watt 47 Watt

We couldn't decide between Radeon HD 4350 and GeForce 8600 GS. We've got no test results to judge.


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