GeForce 8600 GT 512MB DDR2 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 memory. It features 3584 SPUs along with 224 TAUs and 64 Rasterization Operator Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce 8600 GT 512MB DDR2		47 Watts
Radeon RX Vega 56		210 Watts
	Difference: 163 Watts (347%)

Memory Bandwidth

The Radeon RX Vega 56 should in theory perform much faster than the GeForce 8600 GT 512MB DDR2 in general. (explain)

Radeon RX Vega 56		419430 MB/sec
GeForce 8600 GT 512MB DDR2		12800 MB/sec
	Difference: 406630 (3177%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX Vega 56 is quite a bit (about 2897%) more effective at anisotropic filtering than the GeForce 8600 GT 512MB DDR2. (explain)

Radeon RX Vega 56		258944 Mtexels/sec
GeForce 8600 GT 512MB DDR2		8640 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 250304 (2897%)

Pixel Rate

If running with high levels of AA is important to you, then the Radeon RX Vega 56 is superior to the GeForce 8600 GT 512MB DDR2, and very much so. (explain)

Radeon RX Vega 56		73984 Mpixels/sec
GeForce 8600 GT 512MB DDR2		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: Bandwidth is the maximum amount of information (in units of megabytes per second) that can be transported past the external memory interface in one second. The number is calculated by multiplying the card's bus width by its memory speed. If the card has DDR type memory, it should be multiplied by 2 once 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, HDR and higher screen resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels that the graphics card could possibly record to its local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is calculated by multiplying the number of colour ROPs by the clock speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also called Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel output rate also depends on lots of other factors, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the max fill rate.