GeForce 8800 GT 1GB vs Nvidia Titan Xp

Intro

Compare all that to the Nvidia Titan Xp, which makes use of a 16 nm design. nVidia has clocked the core speed at 1582 MHz. The GDDR5X RAM works at a speed of 1426 MHz on this particular card. It features 3840 SPUs as well as 240 Texture Address Units and 96 Rasterization Operator Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce 8800 GT 1GB		105 Watts
Nvidia Titan Xp		250 Watts
	Difference: 145 Watts (138%)

Memory Bandwidth

The Nvidia Titan Xp, in theory, should be quite a bit faster than the GeForce 8800 GT 1GB in general. (explain)

Nvidia Titan Xp		560845 MB/sec
GeForce 8800 GT 1GB		57600 MB/sec
	Difference: 503245 (874%)

Texel Rate

The Nvidia Titan Xp will be a lot (approximately 1030%) more effective at texture filtering than the GeForce 8800 GT 1GB. (explain)

Nvidia Titan Xp		379680 Mtexels/sec
GeForce 8800 GT 1GB		33600 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 346080 (1030%)

Pixel Rate

If running with high levels of AA is important to you, then the Nvidia Titan Xp is the winner, and very much so. (explain)

Nvidia Titan Xp		151872 Mpixels/sec
GeForce 8800 GT 1GB		9600 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 142272 (1482%)

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 largest amount of data (measured in MB per second) that can be transferred past the external memory interface in a second. It is worked out by multiplying the card's interface width by its memory clock speed. If the card has DDR RAM, it should be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the bandwidth is, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, HDR and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum number of texture map elements (texels) that can be processed per second. This is calculated by multiplying the total texture units 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 in one second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels that the graphics card can possibly write to its local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is calculated by multiplying the number of Render Output Units by the the core clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also called 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, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the maximum fill rate.