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GeForce 8600 GT 1GB DDR2 vs Radeon RX 5500

Intro

The GeForce 8600 GT 1GB DDR2 comes with a GPU core speed of 540 MHz, and the 1024 MB of DDR2 RAM runs at 400 MHz through a 128-bit bus. It also is made up of 32 Stream Processors, 16 Texture Address Units, and 8 ROPs.

Compare all of that to the Radeon RX 5500, which has a core clock frequency of 1670 MHz and a GDDR6 memory speed of 1750 MHz. It also makes use of a 128-bit memory bus, and uses a 7 nm design. It features 1408 SPUs, 88 Texture Address Units, and 32 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce 8600 GT 1GB DDR2 47 Watts
Radeon RX 5500 150 Watts
Difference: 103 Watts (219%)

Memory Bandwidth

Performance-wise, the Radeon RX 5500 should theoretically be a lot superior to the GeForce 8600 GT 1GB DDR2 overall. (explain)

Radeon RX 5500 229376 MB/sec
GeForce 8600 GT 1GB DDR2 12800 MB/sec
Difference: 216576 (1692%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 5500 is a lot (about 1601%) better at AF than the GeForce 8600 GT 1GB DDR2. (explain)

Radeon RX 5500 146960 Mtexels/sec
GeForce 8600 GT 1GB DDR2 8640 Mtexels/sec
Difference: 138320 (1601%)

Pixel Rate

If running with lots of anti-aliasing is important to you, then the Radeon RX 5500 is superior to the GeForce 8600 GT 1GB DDR2, and very much so. (explain)

Radeon RX 5500 53440 Mpixels/sec
GeForce 8600 GT 1GB DDR2 4320 Mpixels/sec
Difference: 49120 (1137%)

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 1GB DDR2 Radeon RX 5500
Manufacturer nVidia AMD
Year April 2007 October 2019
Code Name G84 Navi 14 XT
Memory 1024 MB 4096 MB
Core Speed 540 MHz 1670 MHz
Memory Speed 800 MHz 3500 GB/s
Power (Max TDP) 47 watts 150 watts
Bandwidth 12800 MB/sec 229376 MB/sec
Texel Rate 8640 Mtexels/sec 146960 Mtexels/sec
Pixel Rate 4320 Mpixels/sec 53440 Mpixels/sec
Unified Shaders 32 1408
Texture Mapping Units 16 88
Render Output Units 8 32
Bus Type DDR2 GDDR6
Bus Width 128-bit 128-bit
Fab Process 80 nm 7 nm
Transistors 289 million 6400 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 data (in units of MB per second) that can be moved across the external memory interface in a second. It is worked out by multiplying the card's interface width by its memory speed. If it uses DDR type RAM, it should be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the memory bandwidth, the faster 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 worked out by multiplying the total number of texture units by the core clock speed of the chip. The better this number, the better the card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels applied in one second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels the video card could possibly record to its local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is worked out by multiplying the amount of Raster Operations Pipelines by the the card's clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also called Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel output rate is also dependant on many other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the max fill rate.

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GeForce 8600 GT 1GB DDR2

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Radeon RX 5500

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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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