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GeForce 8600 GT 1GB GDDR3 vs Radeon RX 7900 XT

Intro

The GeForce 8600 GT 1GB GDDR3 has a GPU core speed of 540 MHz, and the 1024 MB of GDDR3 RAM is set to run at 700 MHz through a 128-bit bus. It also is made up of 32 Stream Processors, 16 TAUs, and 8 Raster Operation Units.

Compare that to the Radeon RX 7900 XT, which comes with GPU core speed of 1500 MHz, and 20480 MB of GDDR6 RAM set to run at 2500 MHz through a 320-bit bus. It also is comprised of 5376 Stream Processors, 336 TAUs, and 192 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 7900 XT 300 Watts
Difference: 253 Watts (538%)

Memory Bandwidth

The Radeon RX 7900 XT should theoretically be a lot faster than the GeForce 8600 GT 1GB GDDR3 overall. (explain)

Radeon RX 7900 XT 819200 MB/sec
GeForce 8600 GT 1GB GDDR3 22400 MB/sec
Difference: 796800 (3557%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 7900 XT will be much (about 5733%) better at anisotropic filtering than the GeForce 8600 GT 1GB GDDR3. (explain)

Radeon RX 7900 XT 504000 Mtexels/sec
GeForce 8600 GT 1GB GDDR3 8640 Mtexels/sec
Difference: 495360 (5733%)

Pixel Rate

The Radeon RX 7900 XT will be a lot (more or less 6567%) more effective at full screen anti-aliasing than the GeForce 8600 GT 1GB GDDR3, and also will be capable of handling higher screen resolutions without slowing down too much. (explain)

Radeon RX 7900 XT 288000 Mpixels/sec
GeForce 8600 GT 1GB GDDR3 4320 Mpixels/sec
Difference: 283680 (6567%)

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 7900 XT
Manufacturer nVidia AMD
Year April 2007 December 2022
Code Name G84 Navi 31 XT
Memory 1024 MB 20480 MB
Core Speed 540 MHz 1500 MHz
Memory Speed 1400 MHz 5000 GB/s
Power (Max TDP) 47 watts 300 watts
Bandwidth 22400 MB/sec 819200 MB/sec
Texel Rate 8640 Mtexels/sec 504000 Mtexels/sec
Pixel Rate 4320 Mpixels/sec 288000 Mpixels/sec
Unified Shaders 32 5376
Texture Mapping Units 16 336
Render Output Units 8 192
Bus Type GDDR3 GDDR6
Bus Width 128-bit 320-bit
Fab Process 80 nm 5 nm
Transistors 289 million 57700 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 maximum amount of information (counted in MB per second) that can be moved over the external memory interface in one second. It is worked out by multiplying the bus width by its memory speed. If it uses DDR type RAM, it must be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. 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 texture map elements (texels) that are processed per second. This is worked out by multiplying the total number of texture units of the card by the core speed of the chip. The better 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 most pixels that the graphics card can possibly record to the local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is calculated by multiplying the number of colour ROPs by the the core speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also sometimes called Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel fill rate also depends on lots of other factors, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the max fill rate.

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GeForce 8600 GT 1GB GDDR3

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Radeon RX 7900 XT

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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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