GeForce 8600 GT 512MB GDDR3 vs Radeon RX 5700

Intro

Compare those specifications to the Radeon RX 5700, which has a core clock speed of 1465 MHz and a GDDR6 memory speed of 1750 MHz. It also uses a 256-bit memory bus, and uses a 7 nm design. It is comprised of 2304 SPUs, 144 TAUs, and 64 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce 8600 GT 512MB GDDR3		47 Watts
Radeon RX 5700		180 Watts
	Difference: 133 Watts (283%)

Memory Bandwidth

In theory, the Radeon RX 5700 should be quite a bit faster than the GeForce 8600 GT 512MB GDDR3 in general. (explain)

Radeon RX 5700		458752 MB/sec
GeForce 8600 GT 512MB GDDR3		22400 MB/sec
	Difference: 436352 (1948%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 5700 is a lot (approximately 2342%) faster with regards to anisotropic filtering than the GeForce 8600 GT 512MB GDDR3. (explain)

Radeon RX 5700		210960 Mtexels/sec
GeForce 8600 GT 512MB GDDR3		8640 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 202320 (2342%)

Pixel Rate

If running with high levels of AA is important to you, then the Radeon RX 5700 is a better choice, and very much so. (explain)

Radeon RX 5700		93760 Mpixels/sec
GeForce 8600 GT 512MB GDDR3		4320 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 89440 (2070%)

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: Memory bandwidth is the largest amount of information (measured in megabytes per second) that can be moved past the external memory interface in a second. It is calculated by multiplying the card's interface width by the speed of its memory. In the case of DDR RAM, it should be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, HDR and higher screen resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum amount of texture map elements (texels) that can be applied in one second. This figure is calculated by multiplying the total amount of texture units 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 in one second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels the graphics card could possibly record to its local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is calculated by multiplying the amount of colour ROPs by the clock speed of the card. 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 many other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the max fill rate.