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GeForce 8600 GT 512MB DDR2 vs Radeon HD 5770

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The GeForce 8600 GT 512MB DDR2 features a GPU core clock speed of 540 MHz, and the 512 MB of DDR2 memory is set to run at 400 MHz through a 128-bit bus. It also is comprised of 32 Stream Processors, 16 TAUs, and 8 ROPs.

Compare those specifications to the Radeon HD 5770, which makes use of a 40 nm design. AMD has set the core speed at 850 MHz. The GDDR5 RAM is set to run at a frequency of 1200 MHz on this specific model. It features 800(160x5) SPUs as well as 40 Texture Address Units and 16 Rasterization Operator Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce 8600 GT 512MB DDR2 47 Watts
Radeon HD 5770 108 Watts
Difference: 61 Watts (130%)

Memory Bandwidth

In theory, the Radeon HD 5770 is 500% faster than the GeForce 8600 GT 512MB DDR2 in general, because of its greater bandwidth. (explain)

Radeon HD 5770 76800 MB/sec
GeForce 8600 GT 512MB DDR2 12800 MB/sec
Difference: 64000 (500%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon HD 5770 will be a lot (approximately 294%) faster with regards to anisotropic filtering than the GeForce 8600 GT 512MB DDR2. (explain)

Radeon HD 5770 34000 Mtexels/sec
GeForce 8600 GT 512MB DDR2 8640 Mtexels/sec
Difference: 25360 (294%)

Pixel Rate

If using a high screen resolution is important to you, then the Radeon HD 5770 is the winner, by a large margin. (explain)

Radeon HD 5770 13600 Mpixels/sec
GeForce 8600 GT 512MB DDR2 4320 Mpixels/sec
Difference: 9280 (215%)

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.

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Specifications

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Model GeForce 8600 GT 512MB DDR2 Radeon HD 5770
Manufacturer nVidia AMD
Year April 2007 October 13, 2009
Code Name G84 Juniper XT
Memory 512 MB 1024 MB
Core Speed 540 MHz 850 MHz
Memory Speed 800 MHz 4800 MHz
Power (Max TDP) 47 watts 108 watts
Bandwidth 12800 MB/sec 76800 MB/sec
Texel Rate 8640 Mtexels/sec 34000 Mtexels/sec
Pixel Rate 4320 Mpixels/sec 13600 Mpixels/sec
Unified Shaders 32 800(160x5)
Texture Mapping Units 16 40
Render Output Units 8 16
Bus Type DDR2 GDDR5
Bus Width 128-bit 128-bit
Fab Process 80 nm 40 nm
Transistors 289 million 1040 million
Bus PCIe x16 PCIe 2.1 x16
DirectX Version DirectX 10 DirectX 11
OpenGL Version OpenGL 3.0 OpenGL 3.2

Memory Bandwidth: Bandwidth is the max amount of data (measured in MB per second) that can be moved across the external memory interface within a second. It's calculated by multiplying the bus width by its memory clock speed. If it uses DDR memory, it should be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the bandwidth is, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, 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 figure is worked out by multiplying the total amount of texture units by the core speed of the chip. The higher this number, the better the video card will be at texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels applied per second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels the video card can possibly record to its local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is calculated by multiplying the number of ROPs by the the core speed of the card. 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 many other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the max fill rate.

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GeForce 8600 GT 512MB DDR2

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