GeForce 8600 GS (OEM) vs Nvidia Titan Xp

Intro

Compare those specs to the Nvidia Titan Xp, which has core clock speeds of 1582 MHz on the GPU, and 1426 MHz on the 12288 MB of GDDR5X memory. It features 3840 SPUs as well as 240 Texture Address Units and 96 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce 8600 GS (OEM)		47 Watts
Nvidia Titan Xp		250 Watts
	Difference: 203 Watts (432%)

Memory Bandwidth

The Nvidia Titan Xp, in theory, should perform much faster than the GeForce 8600 GS (OEM) in general. (explain)

Nvidia Titan Xp		560845 MB/sec
GeForce 8600 GS (OEM)		12800 MB/sec
	Difference: 548045 (4282%)

Texel Rate

The Nvidia Titan Xp should be much (approximately 4294%) better at AF than the GeForce 8600 GS (OEM). (explain)

Nvidia Titan Xp		379680 Mtexels/sec
GeForce 8600 GS (OEM)		8640 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 371040 (4294%)

Pixel Rate

If running with a high resolution is important to you, then the Nvidia Titan Xp is superior to the GeForce 8600 GS (OEM), and very much so. (explain)

Nvidia Titan Xp		151872 Mpixels/sec
GeForce 8600 GS (OEM)		4320 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 147552 (3416%)

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 information (measured in MB per second) that can be transported across the external memory interface within a second. It is calculated by multiplying the card's bus width by the speed of its memory. If it uses DDR type memory, it must be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the memory bandwidth, the better 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 number of texture map elements (texels) that are applied in one second. This number is calculated by multiplying the total texture units by the core speed of the chip. The higher this number, the better the video card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels in a second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels that the graphics chip can possibly write to the local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is calculated by multiplying the amount of ROPs by the the card's clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also called Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel fill rate also depends on quite a few other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the maximum fill rate.