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GeForce 8600 GT 1GB DDR2 vs Radeon RX 5500

Intro

The GeForce 8600 GT 1GB DDR2 comes with a clock frequency of 540 MHz and a DDR2 memory frequency of 400 MHz. It also features a 128-bit memory bus, and makes use of a 80 nm design. It is comprised of 32 SPUs, 16 TAUs, and 8 ROPs.

Compare that to the Radeon RX 5500, which features core clock speeds of 1670 MHz on the GPU, and 1750 MHz on the 4096 MB of GDDR6 RAM. It features 1408 SPUs as well as 88 Texture Address Units and 32 Rasterization Operator Units.

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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

The Radeon RX 5500 should theoretically perform much faster than the GeForce 8600 GT 1GB DDR2 in general. (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 (approximately 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

The Radeon RX 5500 is quite a bit (more or less 1137%) more effective at full screen anti-aliasing than the GeForce 8600 GT 1GB DDR2, and capable of handling higher resolutions more effectively. (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: Memory bandwidth is the largest amount of information (measured in MB per second) that can be transferred over the external memory interface in a second. It is calculated by multiplying the interface width by its memory clock speed. If the card has DDR memory, it must be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the bandwidth is, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, HDR and higher screen resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels the video card can possibly write to the local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is calculated by multiplying the amount 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 filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel output rate also depends on lots of other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach 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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