GeForce 8600 GT 1GB DDR2 vs Radeon Vega Frontier Edition

Intro

Compare all of that to the Radeon Vega Frontier Edition, which makes use of a 14 nm design. AMD has set the core speed at 1382 MHz. The HBM2 RAM works at a speed of 1890 MHz on this model. It features 4096 SPUs as well as 256 TAUs and 64 Rasterization Operator Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce 8600 GT 1GB DDR2		47 Watts
Radeon Vega Frontier Edition		300 Watts
	Difference: 253 Watts (538%)

Memory Bandwidth

The Radeon Vega Frontier Edition, in theory, should perform quite a bit faster than the GeForce 8600 GT 1GB DDR2 in general. (explain)

Radeon Vega Frontier Edition		495452 MB/sec
GeForce 8600 GT 1GB DDR2		12800 MB/sec
	Difference: 482652 (3771%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon Vega Frontier Edition is quite a bit (more or less 3995%) better at texture filtering than the GeForce 8600 GT 1GB DDR2. (explain)

Radeon Vega Frontier Edition		353792 Mtexels/sec
GeForce 8600 GT 1GB DDR2		8640 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 345152 (3995%)

Pixel Rate

If using a high resolution is important to you, then the Radeon Vega Frontier Edition is superior to the GeForce 8600 GT 1GB DDR2, by far. (explain)

Radeon Vega Frontier Edition		88448 Mpixels/sec
GeForce 8600 GT 1GB DDR2		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 max amount of information (counted in megabytes per second) that can be transferred past the external memory interface within a second. It's worked out by multiplying the card's interface width by its memory clock speed. If the card has DDR memory, the result should be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the card's memory bandwidth, 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 amount of texture map elements (texels) that can be applied in one second. This is calculated by multiplying the total amount of texture units of the card by the core speed of the chip. The better the texel rate, 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 number of pixels that the graphics chip can possibly write to its local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is worked out by multiplying the number of Render Output Units by the the core speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also sometimes called Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel rate also depends on many other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the maximum fill rate.