GeForce 8600 GT 1GB GDDR3 vs Radeon RX Vega 56

Intro

Compare all of that to the Radeon RX Vega 56, which features clock speeds of 1156 MHz on the GPU, and 1600 MHz on the 8192 MB of HBM2 RAM. It features 3584 SPUs as well as 224 TAUs and 64 Rasterization Operator Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce 8600 GT 1GB GDDR3		47 Watts
Radeon RX Vega 56		210 Watts
	Difference: 163 Watts (347%)

Memory Bandwidth

In theory, the Radeon RX Vega 56 should be 1772% faster than the GeForce 8600 GT 1GB GDDR3 overall, due to its higher data rate. (explain)

Radeon RX Vega 56		419430 MB/sec
GeForce 8600 GT 1GB GDDR3		22400 MB/sec
	Difference: 397030 (1772%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX Vega 56 is quite a bit (more or less 2897%) faster with regards to anisotropic filtering than the GeForce 8600 GT 1GB GDDR3. (explain)

Radeon RX Vega 56		258944 Mtexels/sec
GeForce 8600 GT 1GB GDDR3		8640 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 250304 (2897%)

Pixel Rate

The Radeon RX Vega 56 is quite a bit (approximately 1613%) faster with regards to anti-aliasing than the GeForce 8600 GT 1GB GDDR3, and will be capable of handling higher screen resolutions while still performing well. (explain)

Radeon RX Vega 56		73984 Mpixels/sec
GeForce 8600 GT 1GB GDDR3		4320 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 69664 (1613%)

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: Memory bandwidth is the largest amount of data (in units of MB per second) that can be transferred past the external memory interface in one second. The number is calculated by multiplying the bus width by its memory clock speed. If it uses DDR RAM, it must be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the 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 texture map elements (texels) that are applied per second. This is worked out by multiplying the total number of texture units of the card by the core clock speed of the chip. The higher this number, the better the graphics 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 that the graphics chip can possibly write to the local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is worked out by multiplying the amount of ROPs 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 also depends on many other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the max fill rate.