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GeForce 8600 GT 1GB GDDR3 vs Radeon RX 6800

Intro

The GeForce 8600 GT 1GB GDDR3 has clock speeds of 540 MHz on the GPU, and 700 MHz on the 1024 MB of GDDR3 RAM. It features 32 SPUs as well as 16 TAUs and 8 Rasterization Operator Units.

Compare those specs to the Radeon RX 6800, which comes with GPU clock speed of 1700 MHz, and 16384 MB of GDDR6 memory set to run at 2000 MHz through a 256-bit bus. It also is made up of 3840 SPUs, 240 Texture Address Units, and 96 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 6800 250 Watts
Difference: 203 Watts (432%)

Memory Bandwidth

In theory, the Radeon RX 6800 should be 2241% faster than the GeForce 8600 GT 1GB GDDR3 overall, due to its higher data rate. (explain)

Radeon RX 6800 524288 MB/sec
GeForce 8600 GT 1GB GDDR3 22400 MB/sec
Difference: 501888 (2241%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 6800 will be a lot (about 4622%) more effective at AF than the GeForce 8600 GT 1GB GDDR3. (explain)

Radeon RX 6800 408000 Mtexels/sec
GeForce 8600 GT 1GB GDDR3 8640 Mtexels/sec
Difference: 399360 (4622%)

Pixel Rate

If using a high resolution is important to you, then the Radeon RX 6800 is the winner, by far. (explain)

Radeon RX 6800 163200 Mpixels/sec
GeForce 8600 GT 1GB GDDR3 4320 Mpixels/sec
Difference: 158880 (3678%)

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 GDDR3 Radeon RX 6800
Manufacturer nVidia AMD
Year April 2007 November 2020
Code Name G84 Navi 21
Memory 1024 MB 16384 MB
Core Speed 540 MHz 1700 MHz
Memory Speed 1400 MHz 4000 GB/s
Power (Max TDP) 47 watts 250 watts
Bandwidth 22400 MB/sec 524288 MB/sec
Texel Rate 8640 Mtexels/sec 408000 Mtexels/sec
Pixel Rate 4320 Mpixels/sec 163200 Mpixels/sec
Unified Shaders 32 3840
Texture Mapping Units 16 240
Render Output Units 8 96
Bus Type GDDR3 GDDR6
Bus Width 128-bit 256-bit
Fab Process 80 nm 7 nm
Transistors 289 million 26800 million
Bus PCIe x16 PCIe 4.0 x16
DirectX Version DirectX 10 DirectX 12
OpenGL Version OpenGL 3.0 OpenGL 4.6

Memory Bandwidth: Bandwidth is the largest amount of data (counted in MB per second) that can be transported over the external memory interface within a second. It is worked out by multiplying the interface width by the speed of its memory. If it uses DDR type RAM, it 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 are applied per second. This is worked out by multiplying the total amount of texture units of the card 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 applied per second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels that the graphics chip could 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 ROPs by the the card's clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - sometimes also referred to as Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel output rate is also dependant on quite a few other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the maximum fill rate.

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GeForce 8600 GT 1GB GDDR3

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Radeon RX 6800

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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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