GeForce 8600 GT 512MB DDR2 vs Radeon Vega Frontier Edition

Intro

Compare those specs to the Radeon Vega Frontier Edition, which comes with a GPU core clock speed of 1382 MHz, and 16384 MB of HBM2 memory set to run at 1890 MHz through a 2048-bit bus. It also features 4096 Stream Processors, 256 Texture Address Units, and 64 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce 8600 GT 512MB DDR2		47 Watts
Radeon Vega Frontier Edition		300 Watts
	Difference: 253 Watts (538%)

Memory Bandwidth

The Radeon Vega Frontier Edition should in theory be much faster than the GeForce 8600 GT 512MB DDR2 in general. (explain)

Radeon Vega Frontier Edition		495452 MB/sec
GeForce 8600 GT 512MB DDR2		12800 MB/sec
	Difference: 482652 (3771%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon Vega Frontier Edition should be much (more or less 3995%) faster with regards to texture filtering than the GeForce 8600 GT 512MB DDR2. (explain)

Radeon Vega Frontier Edition		353792 Mtexels/sec
GeForce 8600 GT 512MB DDR2		8640 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 345152 (3995%)

Pixel Rate

If using a high resolution is important to you, then the Radeon Vega Frontier Edition is a better choice, and very much so. (explain)

Radeon Vega Frontier Edition		88448 Mpixels/sec
GeForce 8600 GT 512MB DDR2		4320 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 84128 (1947%)

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 maximum amount of information (in units of megabytes per second) that can be transferred across the external memory interface in a second. It is calculated by multiplying the bus width by its memory speed. In the case of DDR RAM, it must be multiplied by 2 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, HDR and higher screen resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum amount of texture map elements (texels) that can be processed in one second. This is worked out by multiplying the total number of texture units of the card by the core speed of the chip. The better the texel rate, 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 maximum amount of pixels the graphics card could possibly record to its local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is worked out by multiplying the number of Raster Operations Pipelines 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 fill rate also depends on quite a few other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the maximum fill rate.