GeForce 8600 GT 512MB GDDR3 vs Radeon Vega Frontier Edition

Intro

Compare those specs to the Radeon Vega Frontier Edition, which makes use of a 14 nm design. AMD has set the core frequency at 1382 MHz. The HBM2 RAM works at a speed of 1890 MHz on this card. It features 4096 SPUs along with 256 TAUs and 64 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce 8600 GT 512MB GDDR3		47 Watts
Radeon Vega Frontier Edition		300 Watts
	Difference: 253 Watts (538%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the Radeon Vega Frontier Edition should be 2112% faster than the GeForce 8600 GT 512MB GDDR3 in general, because of its higher data rate. (explain)

Radeon Vega Frontier Edition		495452 MB/sec
GeForce 8600 GT 512MB GDDR3		22400 MB/sec
	Difference: 473052 (2112%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon Vega Frontier Edition is a lot (more or less 3995%) better at anisotropic filtering than the GeForce 8600 GT 512MB GDDR3. (explain)

Radeon Vega Frontier Edition		353792 Mtexels/sec
GeForce 8600 GT 512MB GDDR3		8640 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 345152 (3995%)

Pixel Rate

The Radeon Vega Frontier Edition will be much (more or less 1947%) more effective at full screen anti-aliasing than the GeForce 8600 GT 512MB GDDR3, and capable of handling higher resolutions without slowing down too much. (explain)

Radeon Vega Frontier Edition		88448 Mpixels/sec
GeForce 8600 GT 512MB GDDR3		4320 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 84128 (1947%)

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

Specifications

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 is worked out by multiplying the interface width by its memory clock speed. If the card has DDR RAM, it must be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the memory bandwidth, the better 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 can be applied per second. This is worked out by multiplying the total texture units of the card by the core speed of the chip. The higher this number, the better the video card will be at 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 could possibly record to the local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is calculated by multiplying the number of Render Output Units by the the core clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - sometimes also referred to as Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel output rate is also dependant on quite a few other factors, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the max fill rate.