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GeForce 8800 GTS (G80) 320MB vs GeForce GTX 860M
IntroThe GeForce 8800 GTS (G80) 320MB features a GPU core clock speed of 513 MHz, and the 320 MB of GDDR3 RAM is set to run at 792 MHz through a 320-bit bus. It also features 96 SPUs, 48 Texture Address Units, and 20 ROPs.Compare all that to the GeForce GTX 860M, which makes use of a 28 nm design. nVidia has set the core speed at 797 MHz. The GDDR5 memory is set to run at a speed of 1000 MHz on this particular model. It features 1152 SPUs as well as 96 Texture Address Units and 16 Rasterization Operator Units.
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Power Usage and Theoretical BenchmarksPower Consumption (Max TDP)
Memory BandwidthThe GeForce GTX 860M, in theory, should be a bit faster than the GeForce 8800 GTS (G80) 320MB in general. (explain)
Texel RateThe GeForce GTX 860M should be a lot (approximately 211%) faster with regards to texture filtering than the GeForce 8800 GTS (G80) 320MB. (explain)
Pixel RateIf using lots of anti-aliasing is important to you, then the GeForce GTX 860M is a better choice, and very much so. (explain)
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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Memory Bandwidth: Bandwidth is the largest amount of information (measured in MB per second) that can be transferred across the external memory interface in a second. It is calculated by multiplying the card's bus width by its memory speed. If it uses DDR RAM, it must be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the memory bandwidth, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, High Dynamic Range and high resolutions. Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum texture map elements (texels) that are processed in one second. This figure is calculated by multiplying the total amount of texture units by the core clock speed of the chip. The higher the texel rate, the better the 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 number of pixels that the graphics card can possibly write to its local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is calculated by multiplying the number of ROPs by the the card's clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also sometimes called Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel fill rate is also dependant on quite a few other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the maximum fill rate.
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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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