GeForce 8600 GT 1GB GDDR3 vs GeForce RTX 3060 Ti

Intro

Compare all of that to the GeForce RTX 3060 Ti, which uses a 8 nm design. nVidia has set the core frequency at 1410 MHz. The GDDR6 memory runs at a speed of 1750 MHz on this specific card. It features 4864 SPUs as well as 152 TAUs and 80 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce 8600 GT 1GB GDDR3		47 Watts
GeForce RTX 3060 Ti		200 Watts
	Difference: 153 Watts (326%)

Memory Bandwidth

The GeForce 8600 GT 1GB GDDR3, in theory, should perform a small bit faster than the GeForce RTX 3060 Ti in general. (explain)

GeForce 8600 GT 1GB GDDR3		22400 MB/sec
GeForce RTX 3060 Ti		(Unknown) MB/sec
	Difference: 22400 (-100%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce RTX 3060 Ti is quite a bit (more or less 2381%) better at anisotropic filtering than the GeForce 8600 GT 1GB GDDR3. (explain)

GeForce RTX 3060 Ti		214320 Mtexels/sec
GeForce 8600 GT 1GB GDDR3		8640 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 205680 (2381%)

Pixel Rate

If using high levels of AA is important to you, then the GeForce RTX 3060 Ti is the winner, and very much so. (explain)

GeForce RTX 3060 Ti		112800 Mpixels/sec
GeForce 8600 GT 1GB GDDR3		4320 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 108480 (2511%)

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 largest amount of information (measured in MB per second) that can be transferred past the external memory interface in one second. It's calculated by multiplying the card's bus width by the speed of its memory. In the case of DDR type RAM, it must be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the card's 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 are applied per second. This figure is calculated by multiplying the total amount of texture units of the card by the core speed of the chip. The higher this number, the better the graphics card will be at texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels applied in one second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels that the graphics chip can possibly write to the local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is calculated by multiplying the amount of colour ROPs by the the core speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - aka Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel output rate is also dependant on quite a few other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the max fill rate.