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GeForce 8600 GT 512MB DDR2 vs GeForce GTX 1060

Intro

The GeForce 8600 GT 512MB DDR2 comes with a core clock frequency of 540 MHz and a DDR2 memory speed of 400 MHz. It also features a 128-bit memory bus, and makes use of a 80 nm design. It is comprised of 32 SPUs, 16 Texture Address Units, and 8 ROPs.

Compare all that to the GeForce GTX 1060, which uses a 16 nm design. nVidia has set the core speed at 1506 MHz. The GDDR5 memory runs at a speed of 2000 MHz on this specific model. It features 1280 SPUs along with 80 Texture Address Units and 48 Rasterization Operator Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce 8600 GT 512MB DDR2 47 Watts
GeForce GTX 1060 120 Watts
Difference: 73 Watts (155%)

Memory Bandwidth

As far as performance goes, the GeForce GTX 1060 should in theory be a lot better than the GeForce 8600 GT 512MB DDR2 overall. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1060 196608 MB/sec
GeForce 8600 GT 512MB DDR2 12800 MB/sec
Difference: 183808 (1436%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 1060 should be quite a bit (approximately 1294%) more effective at AF than the GeForce 8600 GT 512MB DDR2. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1060 120480 Mtexels/sec
GeForce 8600 GT 512MB DDR2 8640 Mtexels/sec
Difference: 111840 (1294%)

Pixel Rate

If running with a high resolution is important to you, then the GeForce GTX 1060 is the winner, by a large margin. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1060 72288 Mpixels/sec
GeForce 8600 GT 512MB DDR2 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

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Specifications

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Model GeForce 8600 GT 512MB DDR2 GeForce GTX 1060
Manufacturer nVidia nVidia
Year April 2007 July 2016
Code Name G84 GP106-400
Memory 512 MB 6144 MB
Core Speed 540 MHz 1506 MHz
Memory Speed 800 MHz 8000 MHz
Power (Max TDP) 47 watts 120 watts
Bandwidth 12800 MB/sec 196608 MB/sec
Texel Rate 8640 Mtexels/sec 120480 Mtexels/sec
Pixel Rate 4320 Mpixels/sec 72288 Mpixels/sec
Unified Shaders 32 1280
Texture Mapping Units 16 80
Render Output Units 8 48
Bus Type DDR2 GDDR5
Bus Width 128-bit 192-bit
Fab Process 80 nm 16 nm
Transistors 289 million 4400 million
Bus PCIe x16 PCIe 3.0 x16
DirectX Version DirectX 10 DirectX 12.0
OpenGL Version OpenGL 3.0 OpenGL 4.5

Memory Bandwidth: Bandwidth is the max amount of information (counted in MB per second) that can be moved past the external memory interface in one second. It is calculated by multiplying the bus width by the speed of its memory. If the card has DDR type memory, it must be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the card's memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, HDR and high resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels that the graphics chip could possibly write to its local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is worked out by multiplying the number of ROPs by the the core clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also called Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel rate is also dependant on quite a few other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the max fill rate.

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