GeForce 8600 GT 1GB GDDR3 vs Radeon RX 6750 XT

Intro

Compare those specs to the Radeon RX 6750 XT, which features GPU core speed of 2150 MHz, and 12288 MB of GDDR6 memory set to run at 2250 MHz through a 192-bit bus. It also is comprised of 2560 Stream Processors, 160 Texture Address Units, and 64 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 6750 XT		250 Watts
	Difference: 203 Watts (432%)

Memory Bandwidth

In theory, the Radeon RX 6750 XT will be 1875% faster than the GeForce 8600 GT 1GB GDDR3 in general, due to its higher bandwidth. (explain)

Radeon RX 6750 XT		442368 MB/sec
GeForce 8600 GT 1GB GDDR3		22400 MB/sec
	Difference: 419968 (1875%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 6750 XT is quite a bit (more or less 3881%) more effective at AF than the GeForce 8600 GT 1GB GDDR3. (explain)

Radeon RX 6750 XT		344000 Mtexels/sec
GeForce 8600 GT 1GB GDDR3		8640 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 335360 (3881%)

Pixel Rate

If running with high levels of AA is important to you, then the Radeon RX 6750 XT is the winner, and very much so. (explain)

Radeon RX 6750 XT		137600 Mpixels/sec
GeForce 8600 GT 1GB GDDR3		4320 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 133280 (3085%)

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: Bandwidth is the largest amount of information (counted in megabytes per second) that can be moved past the external memory interface within a second. It's calculated by multiplying the interface width by the speed of its memory. In the case of DDR type RAM, 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 AA, HDR and high resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels the video card could possibly write to its local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is worked out by multiplying the number of ROPs by the the core clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also sometimes called Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel fill rate also depends on many other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the maximum fill rate.