GeForce 8600 GT 1GB DDR2 vs Radeon RX 570

Intro

Compare all of that to the Radeon RX 570, which uses a 14 nm design. AMD has set the core frequency at 1168 MHz. The GDDR5 RAM runs at a frequency of 1750 MHz on this card. It features 2048 SPUs along with 128 TAUs and 32 Rasterization Operator Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce 8600 GT 1GB DDR2		47 Watts
Radeon RX 570		150 Watts
	Difference: 103 Watts (219%)

Memory Bandwidth

Performance-wise, the Radeon RX 570 should in theory be a lot better than the GeForce 8600 GT 1GB DDR2 in general. (explain)

Radeon RX 570		229376 MB/sec
GeForce 8600 GT 1GB DDR2		12800 MB/sec
	Difference: 216576 (1692%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 570 will be a lot (about 1630%) more effective at texture filtering than the GeForce 8600 GT 1GB DDR2. (explain)

Radeon RX 570		149504 Mtexels/sec
GeForce 8600 GT 1GB DDR2		8640 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 140864 (1630%)

Pixel Rate

If running with lots of anti-aliasing is important to you, then the Radeon RX 570 is the winner, by far. (explain)

Radeon RX 570		37376 Mpixels/sec
GeForce 8600 GT 1GB DDR2		4320 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 33056 (765%)

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 (measured in MB per second) that can be transported across the external memory interface in one second. The number is calculated by multiplying the interface width by the speed of its memory. If the card has DDR type RAM, it should be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the bandwidth is, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, High Dynamic Range and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum amount of texture map elements (texels) that can be processed per second. This number is worked out by multiplying the total 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 record to the local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is calculated by multiplying the amount of Raster Operations Pipelines by the clock speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also sometimes called Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel rate is also dependant on lots of other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the max fill rate.