View:

• MVC view contains the layout page.
• Before any view is rendered, viewstart page is rendered.
• View might have markup tags like body, html, head, title, meta etc.
• View is not lightweight as compare to Partial View.

Partial View:

• Partial does not contain the layout page.
• It does not verify for a viewstart.cshtml. We cannot put common code for a partial view within the viewStart.cshtml.page.
• In MVC Partial view is designed specially to render within the view and just because of that it does not consist any mark up.
• We can pass a regular view to the RenderPartial method.