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GeForce 8600 GT 256MB DDR2 vs Radeon R7 250X 2GB
IntroThe GeForce 8600 GT 256MB DDR2 uses a 80 nm design. nVidia has set the core speed at 540 MHz. The DDR2 memory runs at a frequency of 400 MHz on this model. It features 32 SPUs along with 16 Texture Address Units and 8 ROPs.Compare all of that to the Radeon R7 250X 2GB, which features GPU clock speed of 1000 MHz, and 2048 MB of GDDR5 RAM running at 1125 MHz through a 128-bit bus. It also features 640 Stream Processors, 40 TAUs, and 16 Raster Operation Units.
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Memory BandwidthTheoretically speaking, the Radeon R7 250X 2GB will be 463% quicker than the GeForce 8600 GT 256MB DDR2 in general, because of its higher data rate. (explain)
Texel RateThe Radeon R7 250X 2GB will be a lot (approximately 363%) more effective at texture filtering than the GeForce 8600 GT 256MB DDR2. (explain)
Pixel RateIf running with a high resolution is important to you, then the Radeon R7 250X 2GB is superior to the GeForce 8600 GT 256MB DDR2, by a large margin. (explain)
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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Memory Bandwidth: Bandwidth is the maximum amount of data (in units of megabytes per second) that can be transferred across the external memory interface in one second. It's calculated by multiplying the card's interface width by the speed of its memory. In the case of DDR RAM, it must be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, High Dynamic Range and high resolutions. Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum number of texture map elements (texels) that are processed per second. This is calculated by multiplying the total texture units of the card by the core speed of the chip. The better this number, the better the video card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels processed in a second. Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels that the graphics chip could possibly write to its local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is calculated by multiplying the amount of Render Output Units by the the card's clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - aka Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel output rate also depends on quite a few other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the maximum fill rate.
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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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