GeForce 8600 GT 1GB GDDR3 vs Radeon VII

Intro

Compare that to the Radeon VII, which comes with clock speeds of 1400 MHz on the GPU, and 1000 MHz on the 16384 MB of HBM2 memory. It features 3840 SPUs along with 240 TAUs and 64 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce 8600 GT 1GB GDDR3		47 Watts
Radeon VII		295 Watts
	Difference: 248 Watts (528%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the Radeon VII should perform quite a bit faster than the GeForce 8600 GT 1GB GDDR3 overall. (explain)

Radeon VII		1048576 MB/sec
GeForce 8600 GT 1GB GDDR3		22400 MB/sec
	Difference: 1026176 (4581%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon VII should be much (about 3789%) more effective at AF than the GeForce 8600 GT 1GB GDDR3. (explain)

Radeon VII		336000 Mtexels/sec
GeForce 8600 GT 1GB GDDR3		8640 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 327360 (3789%)

Pixel Rate

The Radeon VII is quite a bit (approximately 1974%) more effective at anti-aliasing than the GeForce 8600 GT 1GB GDDR3, and also will be able to handle higher resolutions without losing too much performance. (explain)

Radeon VII		89600 Mpixels/sec
GeForce 8600 GT 1GB GDDR3		4320 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 85280 (1974%)

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 largest amount of data (counted in MB per second) that can be moved across the external memory interface in one second. It is worked out by multiplying the bus width by its memory clock speed. If the card has DDR RAM, it must be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the card's memory bandwidth, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, High Dynamic Range and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum amount of texture map elements (texels) that can be processed in one second. This is calculated by multiplying the total number of texture units by the core clock speed of the chip. The better the texel rate, 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 number of pixels that the graphics chip could possibly record to the local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is calculated by multiplying the amount of Raster Operations Pipelines 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 output rate is also dependant on quite a few other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the maximum fill rate.