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GeForce 8600 GT 1GB GDDR3 vs GeForce GTX 650 Ti

Intro

The GeForce 8600 GT 1GB GDDR3 makes use of a 80 nm design. nVidia has clocked the core speed at 540 MHz. The GDDR3 RAM works at a frequency of 700 MHz on this specific model. It features 32 SPUs along with 16 TAUs and 8 Rasterization Operator Units.

Compare those specifications to the GeForce GTX 650 Ti, which has core speeds of 928 MHz on the GPU, and 1350 MHz on the 1024 MB of GDDR5 memory. It features 768 SPUs along with 64 TAUs and 16 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce 8600 GT 1GB GDDR3 47 Watts
GeForce GTX 650 Ti 110 Watts
Difference: 63 Watts (134%)

Memory Bandwidth

The GeForce GTX 650 Ti, in theory, should be much faster than the GeForce 8600 GT 1GB GDDR3 overall. (explain)

GeForce GTX 650 Ti 86400 MB/sec
GeForce 8600 GT 1GB GDDR3 22400 MB/sec
Difference: 64000 (286%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 650 Ti should be a lot (about 587%) faster with regards to anisotropic filtering than the GeForce 8600 GT 1GB GDDR3. (explain)

GeForce GTX 650 Ti 59392 Mtexels/sec
GeForce 8600 GT 1GB GDDR3 8640 Mtexels/sec
Difference: 50752 (587%)

Pixel Rate

If running with lots of anti-aliasing is important to you, then the GeForce GTX 650 Ti is superior to the GeForce 8600 GT 1GB GDDR3, by a large margin. (explain)

GeForce GTX 650 Ti 14848 Mpixels/sec
GeForce 8600 GT 1GB GDDR3 4320 Mpixels/sec
Difference: 10528 (244%)

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 GeForce GTX 650 Ti
Manufacturer nVidia nVidia
Year April 2007 October 2012
Code Name G84 GK106
Memory 1024 MB 1024 MB
Core Speed 540 MHz 928 MHz
Memory Speed 1400 MHz 5400 MHz
Power (Max TDP) 47 watts 110 watts
Bandwidth 22400 MB/sec 86400 MB/sec
Texel Rate 8640 Mtexels/sec 59392 Mtexels/sec
Pixel Rate 4320 Mpixels/sec 14848 Mpixels/sec
Unified Shaders 32 768
Texture Mapping Units 16 64
Render Output Units 8 16
Bus Type GDDR3 GDDR5
Bus Width 128-bit 128-bit
Fab Process 80 nm 28 nm
Transistors 289 million 2540 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: Memory bandwidth is the largest amount of data (measured in MB per second) that can be moved across the external memory interface in one second. It is worked out by multiplying the bus width by its memory speed. If the card has DDR type memory, it should 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 higher screen resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels that the graphics card could possibly record to the local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is worked out by multiplying the amount of ROPs by the clock speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - aka Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel output rate also depends on quite a few other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the max fill rate.

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