GeForce 8800 GS vs GeForce GTX Titan Black

Intro

Compare all that to the GeForce GTX Titan Black, which features core clock speeds of 889 MHz on the GPU, and 1750 MHz on the 6144 MB of GDDR5 memory. It features 2880 SPUs as well as 240 TAUs and 48 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce 8800 GS		105 Watts
GeForce GTX Titan Black		250 Watts
	Difference: 145 Watts (138%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the GeForce GTX Titan Black should perform much faster than the GeForce 8800 GS overall. (explain)

GeForce GTX Titan Black		336000 MB/sec
GeForce 8800 GS		38400 MB/sec
	Difference: 297600 (775%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX Titan Black will be a lot (approximately 708%) better at anisotropic filtering than the GeForce 8800 GS. (explain)

GeForce GTX Titan Black		213360 Mtexels/sec
GeForce 8800 GS		26400 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 186960 (708%)

Pixel Rate

The GeForce GTX Titan Black should be a lot (about 547%) better at anti-aliasing than the GeForce 8800 GS, and will be able to handle higher screen resolutions while still performing well. (explain)

GeForce GTX Titan Black		42672 Mpixels/sec
GeForce 8800 GS		6600 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 36072 (547%)

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 max amount of data (measured in megabytes per second) that can be transferred across the external memory interface within a second. It is calculated by multiplying the card's bus width by its memory speed. If the card has DDR type RAM, it must be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the memory bandwidth, the faster 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 in one second. This figure is calculated by multiplying the total number of texture units of the card by the core speed of the chip. The better this number, the better the graphics card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels processed in a second.

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