GeForce 8600 GT 512MB DDR2 vs Radeon RX 6750 XT

Intro

Compare all that to the Radeon RX 6750 XT, which features a clock frequency of 2150 MHz and a GDDR6 memory speed of 2250 MHz. It also features a 192-bit bus, and makes use of a 7 nm design. It is comprised of 2560 SPUs, 160 Texture Address Units, and 64 Raster Operation Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce 8600 GT 512MB DDR2		47 Watts
Radeon RX 6750 XT		250 Watts
	Difference: 203 Watts (432%)

Memory Bandwidth

In theory, the Radeon RX 6750 XT should be quite a bit faster than the GeForce 8600 GT 512MB DDR2 overall. (explain)

Radeon RX 6750 XT		442368 MB/sec
GeForce 8600 GT 512MB DDR2		12800 MB/sec
	Difference: 429568 (3356%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 6750 XT is a lot (approximately 3881%) better at anisotropic filtering than the GeForce 8600 GT 512MB DDR2. (explain)

Radeon RX 6750 XT		344000 Mtexels/sec
GeForce 8600 GT 512MB DDR2		8640 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 335360 (3881%)

Pixel Rate

The Radeon RX 6750 XT is quite a bit (more or less 3085%) more effective at anti-aliasing than the GeForce 8600 GT 512MB DDR2, and also should be capable of handling higher screen resolutions without slowing down too much. (explain)

Radeon RX 6750 XT		137600 Mpixels/sec
GeForce 8600 GT 512MB DDR2		4320 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 133280 (3085%)

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 (measured in megabytes per second) that can be transferred over the external memory interface in a second. It's calculated by multiplying the bus width by its memory clock speed. If the card has DDR type RAM, the result should be multiplied by 2 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 number of texture map elements (texels) that can be applied in one second. This is worked out by multiplying the total texture units by the core speed of the chip. The higher this number, the better the video card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels processed per second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels that the graphics chip could possibly record to the local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is worked out by multiplying the number of colour ROPs by the the card's clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - aka Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel output rate also depends on lots of other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the max fill rate.