GeForce 8500 GT vs Radeon RX 5600

Intro

Compare all of that to the Radeon RX 5600, which uses a 7 nm design. AMD has clocked the core speed at 1375 MHz. The GDDR6 memory runs at a frequency of 1500 MHz on this card. It features 2048 SPUs along with 128 TAUs and 64 ROPs.

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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

In theory, 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 should be much (more or less 4789%) more effective at texture filtering than the GeForce 8500 GT. (explain)

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

Pixel Rate

If using high levels of AA is important to you, then the Radeon RX 5600 is a better choice, and very much so. (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 maximum amount of information (measured in MB per second) that can be transported over the external memory interface in a second. The number is calculated by multiplying the interface width by the speed of its memory. In the case of DDR type memory, it must be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the card's memory bandwidth, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, High Dynamic Range and higher screen resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels that the graphics chip can possibly write to its local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is worked out by multiplying the amount of Render Output Units by the clock speed of the card. 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 fill rate is also dependant on many other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the maximum fill rate.