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GeForce 8600 GT 1GB GDDR3 vs Radeon R7 M265

Intro

The GeForce 8600 GT 1GB GDDR3 features core speeds of 540 MHz on the GPU, and 700 MHz on the 1024 MB of GDDR3 RAM. It features 32 SPUs as well as 16 Texture Address Units and 8 Rasterization Operator Units.

Compare all that to the Radeon R7 M265, which has core speeds of 725 MHz on the GPU, and 1000 MHz on the 2048 MB of DDR3 RAM. It features 384 SPUs along with 24 TAUs and 8 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Memory Bandwidth

As far as performance goes, the Radeon R7 M265 should in theory be a lot better than the GeForce 8600 GT 1GB GDDR3 overall. (explain)

Radeon R7 M265 32000 MB/sec
GeForce 8600 GT 1GB GDDR3 22400 MB/sec
Difference: 9600 (43%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon R7 M265 should be much (approximately 101%) more effective at texture filtering than the GeForce 8600 GT 1GB GDDR3. (explain)

Radeon R7 M265 17400 Mtexels/sec
GeForce 8600 GT 1GB GDDR3 8640 Mtexels/sec
Difference: 8760 (101%)

Pixel Rate

If using lots of anti-aliasing is important to you, then the Radeon R7 M265 is a better choice, and very much so. (explain)

Radeon R7 M265 5800 Mpixels/sec
GeForce 8600 GT 1GB GDDR3 4320 Mpixels/sec
Difference: 1480 (34%)

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 GT 1GB GDDR3

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Specifications

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Model GeForce 8600 GT 1GB GDDR3 Radeon R7 M265
Manufacturer nVidia AMD
Year April 2007 May 1 2014
Code Name G84 Opal XT
Memory 1024 MB 2048 MB
Core Speed 540 MHz 725 MHz
Memory Speed 1400 MHz 2000 MHz
Power (Max TDP) 47 watts (Unknown) watts
Bandwidth 22400 MB/sec 32000 MB/sec
Texel Rate 8640 Mtexels/sec 17400 Mtexels/sec
Pixel Rate 4320 Mpixels/sec 5800 Mpixels/sec
Unified Shaders 32 384
Texture Mapping Units 16 24
Render Output Units 8 8
Bus Type GDDR3 DDR3
Bus Width 128-bit 128-bit
Fab Process 80 nm 28 nm
Transistors 289 million (Unknown) million
Bus PCIe x16 PCIe 3.0 x8
DirectX Version DirectX 10 DirectX 11.2
OpenGL Version OpenGL 3.0 OpenGL 4.3

Memory Bandwidth: Memory bandwidth is the largest amount of data (counted in MB per second) that can be transferred over the external memory interface in one second. It is calculated by multiplying the card's bus width by its memory clock speed. If the card has DDR type memory, it should be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, HDR and higher screen resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum texture map elements (texels) that can be processed in one second. This is calculated by multiplying the total amount of texture units by the core clock speed of the chip. The higher the texel rate, the better the card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels processed in one second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels the video card can possibly record to its local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is calculated by multiplying the amount of Render Output Units by the clock speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also sometimes called Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel fill rate is also dependant on lots of other factors, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the maximum fill rate.

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GeForce 8600 GT 1GB GDDR3

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Radeon R7 M265

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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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