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GeForce 8600 GTS vs Radeon HD 6570 (OEM) 1GB

Intro

The GeForce 8600 GTS has a GPU core clock speed of 675 MHz, and the 512 MB of GDDR3 RAM runs at 1000 MHz through a 128-bit bus. It also features 32 Stream Processors, 16 Texture Address Units, and 8 ROPs.

Compare all of that to the Radeon HD 6570 (OEM) 1GB, which features GPU clock speed of 650 MHz, and 1024 MB of GDDR3 memory set to run at 900 MHz through a 128-bit bus. It also is comprised of 480 Stream Processors, 24 TAUs, and 8 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon HD 6570 (OEM) 1GB 50 Watts
GeForce 8600 GTS 75 Watts
Difference: 25 Watts (50%)

Memory Bandwidth

The GeForce 8600 GTS should theoretically perform a little bit faster than the Radeon HD 6570 (OEM) 1GB overall. (explain)

GeForce 8600 GTS 32000 MB/sec
Radeon HD 6570 (OEM) 1GB 28800 MB/sec
Difference: 3200 (11%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon HD 6570 (OEM) 1GB will be quite a bit (about 44%) better at anisotropic filtering than the GeForce 8600 GTS. (explain)

Radeon HD 6570 (OEM) 1GB 15600 Mtexels/sec
GeForce 8600 GTS 10800 Mtexels/sec
Difference: 4800 (44%)

Pixel Rate

If using a high screen resolution is important to you, then the GeForce 8600 GTS is the winner, but not by far. (explain)

GeForce 8600 GTS 5400 Mpixels/sec
Radeon HD 6570 (OEM) 1GB 5200 Mpixels/sec
Difference: 200 (4%)

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

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GeForce 8600 GTS

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Specifications

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Model GeForce 8600 GTS Radeon HD 6570 (OEM) 1GB
Manufacturer nVidia AMD
Year April 2007 February 2011
Code Name G84 Turks
Memory 512 MB 1024 MB
Core Speed 675 MHz 650 MHz
Memory Speed 2000 MHz 1800 MHz
Power (Max TDP) 75 watts 50 watts
Bandwidth 32000 MB/sec 28800 MB/sec
Texel Rate 10800 Mtexels/sec 15600 Mtexels/sec
Pixel Rate 5400 Mpixels/sec 5200 Mpixels/sec
Unified Shaders 32 480
Texture Mapping Units 16 24
Render Output Units 8 8
Bus Type GDDR3 GDDR3
Bus Width 128-bit 128-bit
Fab Process 80 nm 40 nm
Transistors 289 million 715 million
Bus PCIe x16 PCIe 2.1 x16
DirectX Version DirectX 10 DirectX 11
OpenGL Version OpenGL 3.0 OpenGL 4.1

Memory Bandwidth: Memory bandwidth is the max amount of data (counted in MB per second) that can be transported over the external memory interface in one second. It's calculated by multiplying the card's bus width by the speed of its memory. In the case of DDR memory, the result should be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the 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 texture map elements (texels) that are applied in one second. This number is worked out by multiplying the total number of texture units by the core clock speed of the chip. The higher the texel rate, the better the video card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels applied in one second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels the graphics card can possibly write to the local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is calculated by multiplying the amount of colour ROPs by the the card's clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - sometimes also referred to as Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel fill rate is also dependant on lots of other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the max fill rate.

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GeForce 8600 GTS

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Radeon HD 6570 (OEM) 1GB

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Please note that the price comparisons are based on search keywords - sometimes it might show cards with very similar names that are not exactly the same as the one chosen in the comparison. We do try to filter out the wrong results as best we can, though.

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