GeForce 8600 GT 1GB GDDR3 vs Radeon RX 6750 XT

Intro

Compare that to the Radeon RX 6750 XT, which comes with core speeds of 2150 MHz on the GPU, and 2250 MHz on the 12288 MB of GDDR6 RAM. It features 2560 SPUs as well as 160 Texture Address Units and 64 Rasterization Operator 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

The Radeon RX 6750 XT should in theory perform a lot faster than the GeForce 8600 GT 1GB GDDR3 in general. (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 (approximately 3881%) more effective at texture filtering 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 using a high resolution is important to you, then the Radeon RX 6750 XT is a better choice, by far. (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: Memory bandwidth is the maximum amount of information (in units of megabytes per second) that can be moved across the external memory interface within a second. The number is worked out by multiplying the card's bus width by its memory speed. If it uses DDR memory, it should be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the card's memory bandwidth, the faster 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 can be applied in one second. This figure is calculated by multiplying the total number of 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 per second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels that the graphics card could possibly record to the local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is worked out by multiplying the amount of Render Output Units by the the card's 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 rate is also dependant on quite a few other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the max fill rate.