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GeForce 8800 GT 512MB vs GeForce GTX 970

Intro

The GeForce 8800 GT 512MB features clock speeds of 600 MHz on the GPU, and 900 MHz on the 512 MB of GDDR3 memory. It features 112 SPUs along with 56 Texture Address Units and 16 Rasterization Operator Units.

Compare all that to the GeForce GTX 970, which has a core clock frequency of 1050 MHz and a GDDR5 memory speed of 1750 MHz. It also makes use of a 256-bit bus, and makes use of a 28 nm design. It features 1664 SPUs, 104 TAUs, and 64 Raster Operation Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce 8800 GT 512MB 105 Watts
GeForce GTX 970 145 Watts
Difference: 40 Watts (38%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the GeForce GTX 970 should be much faster than the GeForce 8800 GT 512MB in general. (explain)

GeForce GTX 970 224000 MB/sec
GeForce 8800 GT 512MB 57600 MB/sec
Difference: 166400 (289%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 970 will be quite a bit (more or less 225%) better at anisotropic filtering than the GeForce 8800 GT 512MB. (explain)

GeForce GTX 970 109200 Mtexels/sec
GeForce 8800 GT 512MB 33600 Mtexels/sec
Difference: 75600 (225%)

Pixel Rate

If using a high resolution is important to you, then the GeForce GTX 970 is superior to the GeForce 8800 GT 512MB, by far. (explain)

GeForce GTX 970 67200 Mpixels/sec
GeForce 8800 GT 512MB 9600 Mpixels/sec
Difference: 57600 (600%)

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 8800 GT 512MB GeForce GTX 970
Manufacturer nVidia nVidia
Year Oct 2007 September 2014
Code Name G92 GM204-200
Memory 512 MB 4096 MB
Core Speed 600 MHz 1050 MHz
Memory Speed 1800 MHz 7000 MHz
Power (Max TDP) 105 watts 145 watts
Bandwidth 57600 MB/sec 224000 MB/sec
Texel Rate 33600 Mtexels/sec 109200 Mtexels/sec
Pixel Rate 9600 Mpixels/sec 67200 Mpixels/sec
Unified Shaders 112 1664
Texture Mapping Units 56 104
Render Output Units 16 64
Bus Type GDDR3 GDDR5
Bus Width 256-bit 256-bit
Fab Process 65 nm 28 nm
Transistors 754 million 5200 million
Bus PCIe x16 2.0 PCIe 3.0 x16
DirectX Version DirectX 10 DirectX 11.2
OpenGL Version OpenGL 3.0 OpenGL 4.5

Memory Bandwidth: Bandwidth is the maximum amount of information (measured in megabytes per second) that can be moved across the external memory interface in one second. It is calculated by multiplying the bus width by its memory speed. In the case of DDR type memory, the result should be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the bandwidth is, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, HDR and high resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels the video card can possibly write to its local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is calculated by multiplying the amount of ROPs by the the core clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - aka Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel rate is also dependant on many other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the maximum fill rate.

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