Radeon Vega 7 vs GeForce 8600 GTS

Place in the ranking	1251	532
Place by popularity	not in top-100	18
Cost-effectiveness evaluation	0.01	no data
Power efficiency	0.47	11.38
Architecture	Tesla (2006−2010)	GCN 5.1 (2018−2022)
GPU code name	G84	Cezanne
Market segment	Desktop	Laptop
Release date	17 April 2007 (17 years ago)	13 April 2021 (3 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)	$199	no data

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

no data

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	448
Core clock speed	675 MHz	300 MHz
Boost clock speed	no data	1900 MHz
Number of transistors	289 million	9,800 million
Manufacturing process technology	80 nm	7 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	60 Watt	45 Watt
Texture fill rate	10.80	53.20
Floating-point processing power	0.0928 TFLOPS	1.702 TFLOPS
ROPs	8	8
TMUs	16	28

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).

Interface	PCIe 1.0 x16	IGP
Length	198 mm	no data
Width	1-slot	no data
Supplementary power connectors	1x 6-pin	None
SLI options	+	-

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	GDDR3	System Shared
Maximum RAM amount	256 MB	System Shared
Standard memory config per GPU	256 MB	no data
Memory bus width	128 Bit	System Shared
Memory clock speed	1000 MHz	System Shared
Memory bandwidth	32 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

2x DVI, 1x S-Video

No outputs

API compatibility

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

DirectX	11.1 (10_0)	12 (12_1)
Shader Model	4.0	6.4
OpenGL	2.1	4.6
OpenCL	1.1	2.1
Vulkan	N/A	1.2
CUDA	1.1	-

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	1−2 −2100%	22 +2100%
1440p	1−2 −3100%	32 +3100%
4K	0−1	16

Cost per frame, $

1080p	199.00	no data
1440p	199.00	no data

Pros & cons summary

Performance score	0.41	7.47
Recency	17 April 2007	13 April 2021
Chip lithography	80 nm	7 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	60 Watt	45 Watt

Vega 7 has a 1722% higher aggregate performance score, an age advantage of 13 years, a 1042.9% more advanced lithography process, and 33.3% lower power consumption.

The Radeon Vega 7 is our recommended choice as it beats the GeForce 8600 GTS in performance tests.

Be aware that GeForce 8600 GTS is a desktop card while Radeon Vega 7 is a notebook one.

Should you still have questions concerning choice between the reviewed GPUs, ask them in Comments section, and we shall answer.