View Vs Partial View

View Vs Partial View

View	Partial View
View contains the layout page	Partial view does not contain the layout page
_viewstart page is rendered before any view is rendered	Partial view does not check for a _viewstart.cshtml. We cannot place any common code for a partial view within the _viewStart.cshtml page.
View may have markup tags like html, body, head, title, meta etc.	The Partial view is specially designed to render within the view and as a result it does not contain any mark up.
Partial view is more lightweight than the view. We can also pass a regular view to the RenderPartial method.
If there is no layout page specified in the view, it can be considered as a partial view. In razor, there is no distinction between views and partial views as in the ASPX view engine (aspx and ascx).