GeForce 8600 GT 1GB GDDR3 vs Radeon RX 5600

Intro

Compare all that to the Radeon RX 5600, which features a clock speed of 1375 MHz and a GDDR6 memory frequency of 1500 MHz. It also makes use of a 192-bit bus, and makes use of a 7 nm design. It is comprised 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 8600 GT 1GB GDDR3		47 Watts
Radeon RX 5600		150 Watts
	Difference: 103 Watts (219%)

Memory Bandwidth

The Radeon RX 5600, in theory, should perform a lot faster than the GeForce 8600 GT 1GB GDDR3 overall. (explain)

Radeon RX 5600		294912 MB/sec
GeForce 8600 GT 1GB GDDR3		22400 MB/sec
	Difference: 272512 (1217%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 5600 should be a lot (more or less 1937%) better at anisotropic filtering than the GeForce 8600 GT 1GB GDDR3. (explain)

Radeon RX 5600		176000 Mtexels/sec
GeForce 8600 GT 1GB GDDR3		8640 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 167360 (1937%)

Pixel Rate

If using a high screen resolution is important to you, then the Radeon RX 5600 is a better choice, by far. (explain)

Radeon RX 5600		88000 Mpixels/sec
GeForce 8600 GT 1GB GDDR3		4320 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 83680 (1937%)

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: Memory bandwidth is the maximum amount of information (in units of MB per second) that can be moved past the external memory interface within a second. It's worked out by multiplying the bus width by its memory clock speed. If it uses DDR memory, it should be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the memory bandwidth, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, HDR and higher screen resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels the video card could possibly write to the local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is worked out by multiplying the number of Render Output Units by the clock speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also called Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel fill rate also depends on many other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the max fill rate.