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GeForce 8600 GT 256MB GDDR3 vs Radeon RX 5600 XT

Intro

The GeForce 8600 GT 256MB GDDR3 features a clock speed of 540 MHz and a GDDR3 memory speed of 700 MHz. It also uses a 128-bit bus, and makes use of a 80 nm design. It is comprised of 32 SPUs, 16 Texture Address Units, and 8 ROPs.

Compare all of that to the Radeon RX 5600 XT, which features a GPU core clock speed of 1375 MHz, and 6144 MB of GDDR6 memory running at 1500 MHz through a 192-bit bus. It also is made up of 2304 SPUs, 144 TAUs, and 64 Raster Operation Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce 8600 GT 256MB GDDR3 47 Watts
Radeon RX 5600 XT 160 Watts
Difference: 113 Watts (240%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the Radeon RX 5600 XT should perform a lot faster than the GeForce 8600 GT 256MB GDDR3 overall. (explain)

Radeon RX 5600 XT 344064 MB/sec
GeForce 8600 GT 256MB GDDR3 22400 MB/sec
Difference: 321664 (1436%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 5600 XT will be a lot (more or less 2192%) faster with regards to anisotropic filtering than the GeForce 8600 GT 256MB GDDR3. (explain)

Radeon RX 5600 XT 198000 Mtexels/sec
GeForce 8600 GT 256MB GDDR3 8640 Mtexels/sec
Difference: 189360 (2192%)

Pixel Rate

The Radeon RX 5600 XT should be quite a bit (more or less 1937%) more effective at full screen anti-aliasing than the GeForce 8600 GT 256MB GDDR3, and also able to handle higher resolutions better. (explain)

Radeon RX 5600 XT 88000 Mpixels/sec
GeForce 8600 GT 256MB 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

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Specifications

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Model GeForce 8600 GT 256MB GDDR3 Radeon RX 5600 XT
Manufacturer nVidia AMD
Year April 2007 January 2020
Code Name G84 Navi 10 XLE
Memory 256 MB 6144 MB
Core Speed 540 MHz 1375 MHz
Memory Speed 1400 MHz 3000 GB/s
Power (Max TDP) 47 watts 160 watts
Bandwidth 22400 MB/sec 344064 MB/sec
Texel Rate 8640 Mtexels/sec 198000 Mtexels/sec
Pixel Rate 4320 Mpixels/sec 88000 Mpixels/sec
Unified Shaders 32 2304
Texture Mapping Units 16 144
Render Output Units 8 64
Bus Type GDDR3 GDDR6
Bus Width 128-bit 192-bit
Fab Process 80 nm 7 nm
Transistors 289 million 10300 million
Bus PCIe x16 PCIe 4.0 ×16
DirectX Version DirectX 10 DirectX 12
OpenGL Version OpenGL 3.0 OpenGL 4.6

Memory Bandwidth: Bandwidth is the maximum amount of information (measured in megabytes per second) that can be transferred over the external memory interface in one second. It is worked out by multiplying the card's interface width by the speed of its memory. If it uses DDR type memory, the result should be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the memory bandwidth, 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 calculated by multiplying the total texture units by the core speed of the chip. The higher the texel rate, the better the graphics card will be at texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels applied per second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels the video card can possibly record to the 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 - also sometimes called Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel rate also depends on quite a few other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the maximum fill rate.

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GeForce 8600 GT 256MB GDDR3

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Radeon RX 5600 XT

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Please note that the price comparisons are based on search keywords - sometimes it might show cards with very similar names that are not exactly the same as the one chosen in the comparison. We do try to filter out the wrong results as best we can, though.

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