GeForce 8800 GT 512MB vs Radeon RX 5600

Intro

Compare that to the Radeon RX 5600, which has GPU clock speed of 1375 MHz, and 6144 MB of GDDR6 RAM running at 1500 MHz through a 192-bit bus. It also is made up of 2048 Stream Processors, 128 Texture Address Units, and 64 ROPs.

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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 should be 412% quicker than the GeForce 8800 GT 512MB overall, because of its greater 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 (about 424%) better 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

The Radeon RX 5600 is much (approximately 817%) better at AA than the GeForce 8800 GT 512MB, and should be able to handle higher screen resolutions more effectively. (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 past the external memory interface in a second. The number is worked out by multiplying the interface width by the speed of its memory. If the card has DDR type RAM, the result should be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the memory bandwidth, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, High Dynamic Range and higher screen resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum texture map elements (texels) that can be processed per second. This figure is calculated by multiplying the total amount of texture units of the card by the core clock 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 per second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels the graphics card can possibly write to its local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is calculated by multiplying the number of colour ROPs by the the core clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - aka Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel output rate also depends on quite a few other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the maximum fill rate.