GeForce 8800 GS vs GeForce GTX 1050 Ti

Intro

Compare those specifications to the GeForce GTX 1050 Ti, which comes with core speeds of 1290 MHz on the GPU, and 1750 MHz on the 4096 MB of GDDR5 memory. It features 768 SPUs along with 48 TAUs and 32 Rasterization Operator Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GTX 1050 Ti		75 Watts
GeForce 8800 GS		105 Watts
	Difference: 30 Watts (40%)

Memory Bandwidth

The GeForce GTX 1050 Ti should in theory perform quite a bit faster than the GeForce 8800 GS in general. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1050 Ti		114688 MB/sec
GeForce 8800 GS		38400 MB/sec
	Difference: 76288 (199%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 1050 Ti will be a lot (approximately 135%) more effective at anisotropic filtering than the GeForce 8800 GS. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1050 Ti		61920 Mtexels/sec
GeForce 8800 GS		26400 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 35520 (135%)

Pixel Rate

The GeForce GTX 1050 Ti will be much (about 525%) better at full screen anti-aliasing than the GeForce 8800 GS, and able to handle higher screen resolutions better. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1050 Ti		41280 Mpixels/sec
GeForce 8800 GS		6600 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 34680 (525%)

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 maximum amount of data (in units of megabytes per second) that can be moved past the external memory interface in a second. It's calculated by multiplying the interface width by the speed of its memory. If it uses DDR type RAM, it must be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the card's memory bandwidth, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, HDR and high resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels that the graphics card could possibly record to its local memory in one 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 - also sometimes called Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel output rate is also dependant on lots of other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the max fill rate.