GeForce 8600 GT 512MB GDDR3 vs Radeon R9 Fury X

Intro

Compare those specs to the Radeon R9 Fury X, which features a core clock speed of 1050 MHz and a HBM memory frequency of 500 MHz. It also features a 4096-bit memory bus, and uses a 28 nm design. It features 4096 SPUs, 256 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 GDDR3		47 Watts
Radeon R9 Fury X		275 Watts
	Difference: 228 Watts (485%)

Memory Bandwidth

In theory, the Radeon R9 Fury X should be 2186% quicker than the GeForce 8600 GT 512MB GDDR3 in general, because of its greater data rate. (explain)

Radeon R9 Fury X		512000 MB/sec
GeForce 8600 GT 512MB GDDR3		22400 MB/sec
	Difference: 489600 (2186%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon R9 Fury X should be quite a bit (about 3011%) more effective at AF than the GeForce 8600 GT 512MB GDDR3. (explain)

Radeon R9 Fury X		268800 Mtexels/sec
GeForce 8600 GT 512MB GDDR3		8640 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 260160 (3011%)

Pixel Rate

If running with a high resolution is important to you, then the Radeon R9 Fury X is superior to the GeForce 8600 GT 512MB GDDR3, by far. (explain)

Radeon R9 Fury X		67200 Mpixels/sec
GeForce 8600 GT 512MB GDDR3		4320 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 62880 (1456%)

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 MB per second) that can be transferred across the external memory interface within a second. It's worked out by multiplying the bus width by its memory clock speed. If it uses DDR type RAM, it must be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the bandwidth is, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, HDR and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum amount of texture map elements (texels) that are applied in one second. This number is worked out by multiplying the total amount of texture units of the card by the core clock speed of the chip. The better this number, the better the video 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 chip could possibly record to the local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is calculated by multiplying the amount of Render Output Units by the the core clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also called Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel rate is also dependant on many other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the maximum fill rate.