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GeForce 8600 GTS vs Radeon HD 7770

Intro

The GeForce 8600 GTS comes with core speeds of 675 MHz on the GPU, and 1000 MHz on the 512 MB of GDDR3 RAM. It features 32 SPUs along with 16 Texture Address Units and 8 Rasterization Operator Units.

Compare all that to the Radeon HD 7770, which has GPU clock speed of 1000 MHz, and 1024 MB of GDDR5 memory running at 1125 MHz through a 128-bit bus. It also features 640 Stream Processors, 40 Texture Address Units, and 16 Raster Operation Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce 8600 GTS 75 Watts
Radeon HD 7770 80 Watts
Difference: 5 Watts (7%)

Memory Bandwidth

In theory, the Radeon HD 7770 should be 125% quicker than the GeForce 8600 GTS in general, due to its greater data rate. (explain)

Radeon HD 7770 72000 MB/sec
GeForce 8600 GTS 32000 MB/sec
Difference: 40000 (125%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon HD 7770 will be a lot (approximately 270%) faster with regards to texture filtering than the GeForce 8600 GTS. (explain)

Radeon HD 7770 40000 Mtexels/sec
GeForce 8600 GTS 10800 Mtexels/sec
Difference: 29200 (270%)

Pixel Rate

The Radeon HD 7770 should be quite a bit (about 196%) faster with regards to full screen anti-aliasing than the GeForce 8600 GTS, and also able to handle higher screen resolutions without losing too much performance. (explain)

Radeon HD 7770 16000 Mpixels/sec
GeForce 8600 GTS 5400 Mpixels/sec
Difference: 10600 (196%)

Please note that the above 'benchmarks' are all just theoretical - the results were calculated based on the card's specifications, and real-world performance may (and probably will) vary at least a bit.

Price Comparison

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GeForce 8600 GTS

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Specifications

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Model GeForce 8600 GTS Radeon HD 7770
Manufacturer nVidia AMD
Year April 2007 February 2012
Code Name G84 Cape Verde XT
Memory 512 MB 1024 MB
Core Speed 675 MHz 1000 MHz
Memory Speed 2000 MHz 4500 MHz
Power (Max TDP) 75 watts 80 watts
Bandwidth 32000 MB/sec 72000 MB/sec
Texel Rate 10800 Mtexels/sec 40000 Mtexels/sec
Pixel Rate 5400 Mpixels/sec 16000 Mpixels/sec
Unified Shaders 32 640
Texture Mapping Units 16 40
Render Output Units 8 16
Bus Type GDDR3 GDDR5
Bus Width 128-bit 128-bit
Fab Process 80 nm 28 nm
Transistors 289 million 1500 million
Bus PCIe x16 PCIe 3.0 x16
DirectX Version DirectX 10 DirectX 11.1
OpenGL Version OpenGL 3.0 OpenGL 4.2

Memory Bandwidth: Bandwidth is the max amount of information (measured in MB per second) that can be transported over the external memory interface within a second. It's worked out by multiplying the bus width by the speed of its memory. If the card has DDR RAM, it should be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the bandwidth is, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, High Dynamic Range and higher screen resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum texture map elements (texels) that are processed per second. This figure is worked out by multiplying the total number of texture units of the card by the core clock speed of the chip. The better the texel rate, the better the graphics card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels per second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels the video card can possibly write to the local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is calculated by multiplying the amount of ROPs by the the core speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also called Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel rate also depends on many other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the max fill rate.

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GeForce 8600 GTS

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Radeon HD 7770

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Please note that the price comparisons are based on search keywords - sometimes it might show cards with very similar names that are not exactly the same as the one chosen in the comparison. We do try to filter out the wrong results as best we can, though.

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