GeForce 8600 GT 1GB DDR2 vs Nvidia Titan Xp

Intro

Compare those specs to the Nvidia Titan Xp, which makes use of a 16 nm design. nVidia has set the core speed at 1582 MHz. The GDDR5X RAM is set to run at a speed of 1426 MHz on this 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 8600 GT 1GB DDR2		47 Watts
Nvidia Titan Xp		250 Watts
	Difference: 203 Watts (432%)

Memory Bandwidth

In theory, the Nvidia Titan Xp should be a lot faster than the GeForce 8600 GT 1GB DDR2 overall. (explain)

Nvidia Titan Xp		560845 MB/sec
GeForce 8600 GT 1GB DDR2		12800 MB/sec
	Difference: 548045 (4282%)

Texel Rate

The Nvidia Titan Xp is much (more or less 4294%) faster with regards to anisotropic filtering than the GeForce 8600 GT 1GB DDR2. (explain)

Nvidia Titan Xp		379680 Mtexels/sec
GeForce 8600 GT 1GB DDR2		8640 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 371040 (4294%)

Pixel Rate

If using lots of anti-aliasing is important to you, then the Nvidia Titan Xp is superior to the GeForce 8600 GT 1GB DDR2, by a large margin. (explain)

Nvidia Titan Xp		151872 Mpixels/sec
GeForce 8600 GT 1GB DDR2		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 largest amount of data (in units of megabytes per second) that can be moved past the external memory interface in one second. The number is calculated by multiplying the bus width by its memory clock speed. If the card has DDR type RAM, it should be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the bandwidth is, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, HDR and higher screen resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum number of texture map elements (texels) that can be applied in one second. This is calculated by multiplying the total texture units by the core clock speed of the chip. The higher this number, the better the 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 maximum number of pixels that the graphics chip could possibly write to its local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is calculated by multiplying the amount of ROPs by the the card's clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - aka Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel output rate also depends on quite a few other factors, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the max fill rate.