GeForce 8500 GT vs Radeon RX 5600

Intro

Compare that to the Radeon RX 5600, which has clock speeds of 1375 MHz on the GPU, and 1500 MHz on the 6144 MB of GDDR6 RAM. It features 2048 SPUs as well as 128 TAUs and 64 Rasterization Operator Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce 8500 GT		45 Watts
Radeon RX 5600		150 Watts
	Difference: 105 Watts (233%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the Radeon RX 5600 should be much faster than the GeForce 8500 GT in general. (explain)

Radeon RX 5600		294912 MB/sec
GeForce 8500 GT		12800 MB/sec
	Difference: 282112 (2204%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 5600 will be quite a bit (about 4789%) faster with regards to AF than the GeForce 8500 GT. (explain)

Radeon RX 5600		176000 Mtexels/sec
GeForce 8500 GT		3600 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 172400 (4789%)

Pixel Rate

If running with high levels of AA is important to you, then the Radeon RX 5600 is a better choice, by far. (explain)

Radeon RX 5600		88000 Mpixels/sec
GeForce 8500 GT		1800 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 86200 (4789%)

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 data (counted in MB per second) that can be transferred across the external memory interface within a second. It is calculated by multiplying the card's bus width by the speed of its memory. If the card has DDR type memory, the result should be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better 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 number of texture map elements (texels) that can be processed in one second. This is worked out by multiplying the total texture units of the card by the core clock speed of the chip. The better this number, the better the video 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 the video card can possibly record to its local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is calculated by multiplying the amount of Raster Operations Pipelines by the the core clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also sometimes called Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel output rate is also dependant on many other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the max fill rate.