GeForce 8600 GT 1GB GDDR3 vs GeForce GTX 1060

Intro

Compare those specifications to the GeForce GTX 1060, which comes with GPU clock speed of 1506 MHz, and 6144 MB of GDDR5 RAM running at 2000 MHz through a 192-bit bus. It also is made up of 1280 Stream Processors, 80 Texture Address Units, and 48 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce 8600 GT 1GB GDDR3		47 Watts
GeForce GTX 1060		120 Watts
	Difference: 73 Watts (155%)

Memory Bandwidth

The GeForce GTX 1060, in theory, should be much faster than the GeForce 8600 GT 1GB GDDR3 overall. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1060		196608 MB/sec
GeForce 8600 GT 1GB GDDR3		22400 MB/sec
	Difference: 174208 (778%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 1060 is much (more or less 1294%) better at texture filtering than the GeForce 8600 GT 1GB GDDR3. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1060		120480 Mtexels/sec
GeForce 8600 GT 1GB GDDR3		8640 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 111840 (1294%)

Pixel Rate

If using a high resolution is important to you, then the GeForce GTX 1060 is a better choice, and very much so. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1060		72288 Mpixels/sec
GeForce 8600 GT 1GB GDDR3		4320 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 67968 (1573%)

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: Memory bandwidth is the largest amount of information (measured in megabytes per second) that can be moved over the external memory interface within a second. It is calculated by multiplying the card's bus width by its memory clock speed. In the case of DDR memory, the result should be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the bandwidth is, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, HDR and higher screen resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum amount of texture map elements (texels) that are applied per second. This is worked out by multiplying the total number of texture units by the core clock speed of the chip. The higher this number, the better the card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels in a second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels the graphics card can possibly write to its local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is worked out by multiplying the number of Raster Operations Pipelines by the clock speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - sometimes also referred to as Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel rate also depends on lots of other factors, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the max fill rate.