Radeon R3 (Mullins/Beema) vs GeForce 8600M GT

Place in the ranking	1336	1139
Place by popularity	not in top-100	not in top-100
Power efficiency	0.99	no data
Architecture	Tesla (2006−2010)	GCN 1.1 (2014)
GPU code name	G84	Beema/Mullins
Market segment	Laptop	Laptop
Release date	31 December 2007 (16 years ago)	29 April 2014 (10 years ago)

Detailed specifications

General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores	32	128
Core clock speed	475 MHz	350 MHz
Boost clock speed	no data	686 MHz
Number of transistors	289 million	no data
Manufacturing process technology	80 nm	28 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	20 Watt	no data
Texture fill rate	7.600	no data
Floating-point processing power	0.0608 TFLOPS	no data
ROPs	8	no data
TMUs	16	no data

Form factor & 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).

Laptop size	medium sized	no data
Interface	MXM-II	no data

VRAM capacity and type

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 type	DDR2	no data
Maximum RAM amount	512 MB	no data
Memory bus width	128 Bit	64 Bit
Memory clock speed	400 MHz	no data
Memory bandwidth	12.8 GB/s	no data
Shared memory	-	+

Connectivity and outputs

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 Connectors

No outputs

no data

API compatibility

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX	11.1 (10_0)	12 (FL 12_0)
Shader Model	4.0	no data
OpenGL	3.3	no data
OpenCL	1.1	no data
Vulkan	N/A	-
CUDA	1.1	-

Synthetic benchmark performance

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

Combined synthetic benchmark score

This is our combined benchmark score. We are regularly improving our combining algorithms, but if you find some perceived inconsistencies, feel free to speak up in comments section, we usually fix problems quickly.

8600M GT 0.29

R3 (Mullins/Beema) 0.84
+190%

3DMark Vantage Performance

3DMark Vantage is an outdated DirectX 10 benchmark using 1280x1024 screen resolution. It taxes the graphics card with two scenes, one depicting a girl escaping some militarized base located within a sea cave, the other displaying a space fleet attack on a defenseless planet. It was discontinued in April 2017, and Time Spy benchmark is now recommended to be used instead.

8600M GT 1040

R3 (Mullins/Beema) 1815
+74.5%

Gaming performance

Let's see how good the compared graphics cards are for gaming. Particular gaming benchmark results are measured in FPS.

Average FPS across all PC games

Here are the average frames per second in a large set of popular games across different resolutions:

Full HD

5−6

−200%

15
+200%

FPS performance in popular games

Full HD
Low Preset

Cyberpunk 2077

2−3

−50%

3−4
+50%

Full HD
Medium Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey	3−4 −66.7%	5−6 +66.7%
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare	2−3 −50%	3−4 +50%
Cyberpunk 2077	2−3 −50%	3−4 +50%
Hitman 3	4−5 −25%	5−6 +25%
Horizon Zero Dawn	8−9 −50%	12−14 +50%
Shadow of the Tomb Raider	4−5 −75%	7−8 +75%
Watch Dogs: Legion	27−30 −10.7%	30−35 +10.7%

Full HD
High Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey	3−4 −66.7%	5−6 +66.7%
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare	2−3 −50%	3−4 +50%
Cyberpunk 2077	2−3 −50%	3−4 +50%
Hitman 3	4−5 −25%	5−6 +25%
Horizon Zero Dawn	8−9 −50%	12−14 +50%
Shadow of the Tomb Raider	4−5 −75%	7−8 +75%
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt	9−10 −11.1%	10−11 +11.1%
Watch Dogs: Legion	27−30 −10.7%	30−35 +10.7%

Full HD
Ultra Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey	3−4 −66.7%	5−6 +66.7%
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare	2−3 −50%	3−4 +50%
Cyberpunk 2077	2−3 −50%	3−4 +50%
Hitman 3	4−5 −25%	5−6 +25%
Horizon Zero Dawn	8−9 −50%	12−14 +50%
Shadow of the Tomb Raider	4−5 −75%	7−8 +75%
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt	9−10 −11.1%	10−11 +11.1%
Watch Dogs: Legion	27−30 −10.7%	30−35 +10.7%