GeForce 8800 GT 512MB vs Radeon RX 5600

Intro

Compare all that to the Radeon RX 5600, which features a core clock frequency of 1375 MHz and a GDDR6 memory speed of 1500 MHz. It also features a 192-bit bus, and makes use of a 7 nm design. It is made up of 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 512MB		105 Watts
Radeon RX 5600		150 Watts
	Difference: 45 Watts (43%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the Radeon RX 5600 will be 412% quicker than the GeForce 8800 GT 512MB overall, because of its higher bandwidth. (explain)

Radeon RX 5600		294912 MB/sec
GeForce 8800 GT 512MB		57600 MB/sec
	Difference: 237312 (412%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 5600 is quite a bit (more or less 424%) more effective at anisotropic filtering than the GeForce 8800 GT 512MB. (explain)

Radeon RX 5600		176000 Mtexels/sec
GeForce 8800 GT 512MB		33600 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 142400 (424%)

Pixel Rate

If running with lots of anti-aliasing is important to you, then the Radeon RX 5600 is superior to the GeForce 8800 GT 512MB, by a large margin. (explain)

Radeon RX 5600		88000 Mpixels/sec
GeForce 8800 GT 512MB		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 data (counted in MB per second) that can be transferred across the external memory interface in one second. It's calculated by multiplying the card's bus width by the speed of its memory. If the card has DDR memory, it should be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the memory bandwidth, 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 amount of texture map elements (texels) that are processed in one second. This figure is worked out by multiplying the total texture units by the core speed of the chip. The better this number, the better the graphics card will be at texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels processed in a second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels that the graphics card can possibly record to its local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is calculated by multiplying the number of Render Output Units 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 fill rate is also dependant on many other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the maximum fill rate.