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GeForce 8600 GT 512MB DDR2 vs Radeon VII

Intro

The GeForce 8600 GT 512MB DDR2 uses a 80 nm design. nVidia has clocked the core frequency at 540 MHz. The DDR2 RAM works at a frequency of 400 MHz on this card. It features 32 SPUs as well as 16 TAUs and 8 ROPs.

Compare those specifications to the Radeon VII, which features a clock speed of 1400 MHz and a HBM2 memory frequency of 1000 MHz. It also features a 4096-bit memory bus, and makes use of a 7 nm design. It is comprised of 3840 SPUs, 240 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 VII 295 Watts
Difference: 248 Watts (528%)

Memory Bandwidth

The Radeon VII, in theory, should perform a lot faster than the GeForce 8600 GT 512MB DDR2 in general. (explain)

Radeon VII 1048576 MB/sec
GeForce 8600 GT 512MB DDR2 12800 MB/sec
Difference: 1035776 (8092%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon VII is quite a bit (more or less 3789%) faster with regards to AF than the GeForce 8600 GT 512MB DDR2. (explain)

Radeon VII 336000 Mtexels/sec
GeForce 8600 GT 512MB DDR2 8640 Mtexels/sec
Difference: 327360 (3789%)

Pixel Rate

If using a high screen resolution is important to you, then the Radeon VII is a better choice, by a large margin. (explain)

Radeon VII 89600 Mpixels/sec
GeForce 8600 GT 512MB DDR2 4320 Mpixels/sec
Difference: 85280 (1974%)

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 Radeon VII
Manufacturer nVidia AMD
Year April 2007 2019
Code Name G84 Vega 20 XT
Memory 512 MB 16384 MB
Core Speed 540 MHz 1400 MHz
Memory Speed 800 MHz 1000 MHz
Power (Max TDP) 47 watts 295 watts
Bandwidth 12800 MB/sec 1048576 MB/sec
Texel Rate 8640 Mtexels/sec 336000 Mtexels/sec
Pixel Rate 4320 Mpixels/sec 89600 Mpixels/sec
Unified Shaders 32 3840
Texture Mapping Units 16 240
Render Output Units 8 64
Bus Type DDR2 HBM2
Bus Width 128-bit 4096-bit
Fab Process 80 nm 7 nm
Transistors 289 million 13230 million
Bus PCIe x16 PCIe 3.0 x16
DirectX Version DirectX 10 DirectX 12
OpenGL Version OpenGL 3.0 OpenGL 4.6

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

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels that the graphics card can possibly record to the local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is worked out by multiplying the amount of colour ROPs by the the core clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - sometimes also referred to as 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, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the max fill rate.

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GeForce 8600 GT 512MB DDR2

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Radeon VII

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