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GeForce 8800 GTX vs GeForce GTX 650

Intro

The GeForce 8800 GTX comes with a clock speed of 575 MHz and a GDDR3 memory frequency of 900 MHz. It also makes use of a 384-bit bus, and uses a 90 nm design. It is made up of 128 SPUs, 64 Texture Address Units, and 24 Raster Operation Units.

Compare those specifications to the GeForce GTX 650, which comes with core speeds of 1058 MHz on the GPU, and 1250 MHz on the 1024 MB of GDDR5 memory. It features 384 SPUs as well as 32 Texture Address Units and 16 Rasterization Operator Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GTX 650 64 Watts
GeForce 8800 GTX 155 Watts
Difference: 91 Watts (142%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the GeForce 8800 GTX will be 8% faster than the GeForce GTX 650 overall, due to its greater data rate. (explain)

GeForce 8800 GTX 86400 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 650 80000 MB/sec
Difference: 6400 (8%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce 8800 GTX should be a little bit (about 9%) faster with regards to anisotropic filtering than the GeForce GTX 650. (explain)

GeForce 8800 GTX 36800 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 650 33856 Mtexels/sec
Difference: 2944 (9%)

Pixel Rate

If running with lots of anti-aliasing is important to you, then the GeForce GTX 650 is superior to the GeForce 8800 GTX, and very much so. (explain)

GeForce GTX 650 16928 Mpixels/sec
GeForce 8800 GTX 13800 Mpixels/sec
Difference: 3128 (23%)

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.

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Specifications

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Model GeForce 8800 GTX GeForce GTX 650
Manufacturer nVidia nVidia
Year Nov 2006 September 2012
Code Name G80 GK107
Memory 768 MB 1024 MB
Core Speed 575 MHz 1058 MHz
Memory Speed 1800 MHz 5000 MHz
Power (Max TDP) 155 watts 64 watts
Bandwidth 86400 MB/sec 80000 MB/sec
Texel Rate 36800 Mtexels/sec 33856 Mtexels/sec
Pixel Rate 13800 Mpixels/sec 16928 Mpixels/sec
Unified Shaders 128 384
Texture Mapping Units 64 32
Render Output Units 24 16
Bus Type GDDR3 GDDR5
Bus Width 384-bit 128-bit
Fab Process 90 nm 28 nm
Transistors 681 million 1300 million
Bus PCIe x16 PCIe 3.0 x16
DirectX Version DirectX 10 DirectX 11.0
OpenGL Version OpenGL 3.0 OpenGL 4.3

Memory Bandwidth: Bandwidth is the largest amount of information (counted in megabytes per second) that can be moved across the external memory interface in one second. It's calculated by multiplying the bus width by its memory clock speed. If it uses DDR memory, it must be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the memory bandwidth, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, HDR and high resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels the graphics card could possibly record to the local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is calculated by multiplying the number of ROPs by the the card's clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - aka Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel output rate is also dependant on lots of other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the max fill rate.

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GeForce 8800 GTX

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Comments

One Response to “GeForce 8800 GTX vs GeForce GTX 650”
Cory says:

Wish I would've found this site sooner than later... Already bought a 650 to replace my 8800. Back to the store!

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