NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GS vs AMD Radeon HD 7310

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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 2 (2009−2015)G8x (2007−2008)
GPU code nameZacateG84M
Market segmentLaptopLaptop
Release date1 May 2012 (11 years old)9 June 2007 (16 years old)
Current price$516 $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 speed500 MHz600 MHz
Number of transistors450 million210 million
Manufacturing process technology40 nm80 nm
Power consumption (TDP)18 Watt20 Watt
Texture fill rate4.0003.600
Floating-point performanceno data28.8 gflops

Size and compatibility

Information on Radeon HD 7310 and GeForce 8600M GS compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For notebook video cards it's notebook size, connection slot and bus, if the video card is inserted into a slot instead of being soldered to the notebook motherboard.

Laptop sizeno datamedium sized
InterfaceIGPMXM-II

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 typeSystem SharedGDDR3, GDDR2
Maximum RAM amountSystem Shared512 MB
Memory bus widthSystem Shared128 Bit
Memory clock speedSystem Shared700 MHz
Memory bandwidthno data12.8 GB/s
Shared memory+-

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 ConnectorsNo outputsNo outputs

API support

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

DirectX11.2 (11_0)11.1 (10_0)
Shader Model5.04.0
OpenGL4.43.3
OpenCL1.21.1
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%

HD 7310 128
+82.9%
8600M GS 70

Radeon HD 7310 outperforms GeForce 8600M GS by 83% in Passmark.

Advantages and disadvantages


Recency 1 May 2012 9 June 2007
Maximum RAM amount System Shared 512 MB
Chip lithography 40 nm 80 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 18 Watt 20 Watt

We couldn't decide between Radeon HD 7310 and GeForce 8600M GS. We've got no test results to judge.


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