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GeForce 8600 GT 512MB DDR2 vs GeForce GTX 1070

Intro

The GeForce 8600 GT 512MB DDR2 features clock speeds of 540 MHz on the GPU, and 400 MHz on the 512 MB of DDR2 memory. It features 32 SPUs along with 16 Texture Address Units and 8 Rasterization Operator Units.

Compare all of that to the GeForce GTX 1070, which features core speeds of 1506 MHz on the GPU, and 2000 MHz on the 8192 MB of GDDR5 RAM. It features 1920 SPUs along with 120 Texture Address Units and 64 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce 8600 GT 512MB DDR2 47 Watts
GeForce GTX 1070 150 Watts
Difference: 103 Watts (219%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically, the GeForce GTX 1070 should be a lot faster than the GeForce 8600 GT 512MB DDR2 overall. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1070 262144 MB/sec
GeForce 8600 GT 512MB DDR2 12800 MB/sec
Difference: 249344 (1948%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 1070 is a lot (more or less 1992%) better at anisotropic filtering than the GeForce 8600 GT 512MB DDR2. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1070 180720 Mtexels/sec
GeForce 8600 GT 512MB DDR2 8640 Mtexels/sec
Difference: 172080 (1992%)

Pixel Rate

If using a high resolution is important to you, then the GeForce GTX 1070 is a better choice, by far. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1070 96384 Mpixels/sec
GeForce 8600 GT 512MB DDR2 4320 Mpixels/sec
Difference: 92064 (2131%)

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.

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Specifications

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Model GeForce 8600 GT 512MB DDR2 GeForce GTX 1070
Manufacturer nVidia nVidia
Year April 2007 June 2016
Code Name G84 GP104-200
Memory 512 MB 8192 MB
Core Speed 540 MHz 1506 MHz
Memory Speed 800 MHz 8000 MHz
Power (Max TDP) 47 watts 150 watts
Bandwidth 12800 MB/sec 262144 MB/sec
Texel Rate 8640 Mtexels/sec 180720 Mtexels/sec
Pixel Rate 4320 Mpixels/sec 96384 Mpixels/sec
Unified Shaders 32 1920
Texture Mapping Units 16 120
Render Output Units 8 64
Bus Type DDR2 GDDR5
Bus Width 128-bit 256-bit
Fab Process 80 nm 16 nm
Transistors 289 million 7200 million
Bus PCIe x16 PCIe 3.0 x16
DirectX Version DirectX 10 DirectX 12.0
OpenGL Version OpenGL 3.0 OpenGL 4.5

Memory Bandwidth: Bandwidth is the largest amount of information (measured in megabytes per second) that can be moved over the external memory interface in a second. It is calculated by multiplying the card's bus width by its memory speed. If the card has DDR type RAM, it must be multiplied by 2 once 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 anti-aliasing, HDR and high resolutions.

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

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

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