GeForce 8600 GS (OEM) vs Radeon RX 590

Intro

Compare those specifications to the Radeon RX 590, which has a clock frequency of 1469 MHz and a GDDR5 memory frequency of 2000 MHz. It also uses a 256-bit memory bus, and makes use of a 12 nm design. It is comprised of 2304 SPUs, 144 TAUs, and 32 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce 8600 GS (OEM)		47 Watts
Radeon RX 590		175 Watts
	Difference: 128 Watts (272%)

Memory Bandwidth

As far as performance goes, the Radeon RX 590 should theoretically be a lot superior to the GeForce 8600 GS (OEM) in general. (explain)

Radeon RX 590		262144 MB/sec
GeForce 8600 GS (OEM)		12800 MB/sec
	Difference: 249344 (1948%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 590 will be quite a bit (approximately 2348%) more effective at texture filtering than the GeForce 8600 GS (OEM). (explain)

Radeon RX 590		211536 Mtexels/sec
GeForce 8600 GS (OEM)		8640 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 202896 (2348%)

Pixel Rate

If using lots of anti-aliasing is important to you, then the Radeon RX 590 is superior to the GeForce 8600 GS (OEM), by a large margin. (explain)

Radeon RX 590		47008 Mpixels/sec
GeForce 8600 GS (OEM)		4320 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 42688 (988%)

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 max amount of data (counted in megabytes per second) that can be transferred past the external memory interface in one second. It's calculated by multiplying the card's bus width by its memory clock speed. If the card has DDR RAM, it should be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the bandwidth is, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, High Dynamic Range and high resolutions.

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

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