GeForce 8600 GT 1GB GDDR3 vs Radeon Vega Frontier Edition

Intro

Compare that to the Radeon Vega Frontier Edition, which comes with a GPU core clock speed of 1382 MHz, and 16384 MB of HBM2 RAM running at 1890 MHz through a 2048-bit bus. It also is made up of 4096 SPUs, 256 TAUs, and 64 Raster Operation Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce 8600 GT 1GB GDDR3		47 Watts
Radeon Vega Frontier Edition		300 Watts
	Difference: 253 Watts (538%)

Memory Bandwidth

In theory, the Radeon Vega Frontier Edition should perform quite a bit faster than the GeForce 8600 GT 1GB GDDR3 overall. (explain)

Radeon Vega Frontier Edition		495452 MB/sec
GeForce 8600 GT 1GB GDDR3		22400 MB/sec
	Difference: 473052 (2112%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon Vega Frontier Edition should be much (more or less 3995%) better at anisotropic filtering than the GeForce 8600 GT 1GB GDDR3. (explain)

Radeon Vega Frontier Edition		353792 Mtexels/sec
GeForce 8600 GT 1GB GDDR3		8640 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 345152 (3995%)

Pixel Rate

The Radeon Vega Frontier Edition will be a lot (approximately 1947%) faster with regards to anti-aliasing than the GeForce 8600 GT 1GB GDDR3, and should be able to handle higher screen resolutions without slowing down too much. (explain)

Radeon Vega Frontier Edition		88448 Mpixels/sec
GeForce 8600 GT 1GB 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 max amount of data (in units of megabytes per second) that can be moved past the external memory interface within a second. It is worked out by multiplying the card's interface width by the speed of its memory. If it uses DDR type RAM, it must be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, High Dynamic Range and higher screen resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels that the graphics chip can possibly record to the local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is worked out by multiplying the number of Raster Operations Pipelines by the clock 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 fill rate also depends on lots of other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the max fill rate.