GeForce 8300 GS (OEM) vs GeForce GTX 1060 3GB

Intro

Compare all that to the GeForce GTX 1060 3GB, which uses a 16 nm design. nVidia has clocked the core speed at 1506 MHz. The GDDR5 RAM is set to run at a speed of 2000 MHz on this card. It features 1152 SPUs along with 72 Texture Address Units and 48 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce 8300 GS (OEM)		40 Watts
GeForce GTX 1060 3GB		120 Watts
	Difference: 80 Watts (200%)

Memory Bandwidth

In theory, the GeForce GTX 1060 3GB should be 2972% faster than the GeForce 8300 GS (OEM) overall, due to its higher data rate. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1060 3GB		196608 MB/sec
GeForce 8300 GS (OEM)		6400 MB/sec
	Difference: 190208 (2972%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 1060 3GB will be much (more or less 5924%) better at anisotropic filtering than the GeForce 8300 GS (OEM). (explain)

GeForce GTX 1060 3GB		108432 Mtexels/sec
GeForce 8300 GS (OEM)		1800 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 106632 (5924%)

Pixel Rate

If using a high resolution is important to you, then the GeForce GTX 1060 3GB is a better choice, and very much so. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1060 3GB		72288 Mpixels/sec
GeForce 8300 GS (OEM)		900 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 71388 (7932%)

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: Memory bandwidth is the max amount of data (counted in MB per second) that can be transported across the external memory interface in one second. It is calculated by multiplying the interface width by its memory speed. If it uses DDR type memory, the result should be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, High Dynamic Range and higher screen resolutions.

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

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