GeForce 8600 GT 1GB DDR2 vs Radeon RX 5700

Intro

Compare all that to the Radeon RX 5700, which uses a 7 nm design. AMD has set the core frequency at 1465 MHz. The GDDR6 RAM is set to run at a speed of 1750 MHz on this card. It features 2304 SPUs as well as 144 Texture Address Units and 64 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce 8600 GT 1GB DDR2		47 Watts
Radeon RX 5700		180 Watts
	Difference: 133 Watts (283%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the Radeon RX 5700 will be 3484% quicker than the GeForce 8600 GT 1GB DDR2 overall, because of its greater bandwidth. (explain)

Radeon RX 5700		458752 MB/sec
GeForce 8600 GT 1GB DDR2		12800 MB/sec
	Difference: 445952 (3484%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 5700 should be much (more or less 2342%) better at texture filtering than the GeForce 8600 GT 1GB DDR2. (explain)

Radeon RX 5700		210960 Mtexels/sec
GeForce 8600 GT 1GB DDR2		8640 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 202320 (2342%)

Pixel Rate

The Radeon RX 5700 is a lot (about 2070%) faster with regards to AA than the GeForce 8600 GT 1GB DDR2, and able to handle higher screen resolutions more effectively. (explain)

Radeon RX 5700		93760 Mpixels/sec
GeForce 8600 GT 1GB DDR2		4320 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 89440 (2070%)

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 information (in units of megabytes per second) that can be transported across the external memory interface within a second. It's worked out by multiplying the bus width by the speed of its memory. In the case of DDR type memory, the result should be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the card's memory bandwidth, the better 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 figure 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 handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels applied per second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels that the graphics card can possibly write to the local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is worked out by multiplying the amount of ROPs by the the card's clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also called Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel output rate is also dependant on many other factors, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the max fill rate.