View:
It 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 :
It does not contain the layout page
Partial view does not verify for a viewstart.cshtml. We cannot put common code for a partial view within the viewStart.cshtml.page
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