GeForce 8800 GT 256MB vs Radeon RX 5600

Intro

Compare those specifications to the Radeon RX 5600, which has GPU clock speed of 1375 MHz, and 6144 MB of GDDR6 memory running at 1500 MHz through a 192-bit bus. It also features 2048 SPUs, 128 Texture Address Units, and 64 Raster Operation Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce 8800 GT 256MB		105 Watts
Radeon RX 5600		150 Watts
	Difference: 45 Watts (43%)

Memory Bandwidth

Performance-wise, the Radeon RX 5600 should in theory be much better than the GeForce 8800 GT 256MB in general. (explain)

Radeon RX 5600		294912 MB/sec
GeForce 8800 GT 256MB		44800 MB/sec
	Difference: 250112 (558%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 5600 should be much (more or less 424%) more effective at anisotropic filtering than the GeForce 8800 GT 256MB. (explain)

Radeon RX 5600		176000 Mtexels/sec
GeForce 8800 GT 256MB		33600 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 142400 (424%)

Pixel Rate

If running with a high resolution is important to you, then the Radeon RX 5600 is the winner, by far. (explain)

Radeon RX 5600		88000 Mpixels/sec
GeForce 8800 GT 256MB		9600 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 78400 (817%)

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 (in units of MB per second) that can be moved over the external memory interface in one second. It's worked out by multiplying the card's bus width by its memory speed. If it uses DDR type RAM, the result should be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the memory bandwidth, 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 can be applied in one second. This is worked out by multiplying the total texture units by the core speed of the chip. The higher this number, the better the video card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels applied in a second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels that the graphics card could possibly write to its local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is calculated by multiplying the amount of colour ROPs by the the core speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also called Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel rate is also dependant on lots of other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the maximum fill rate.