GeForce 8600 GT 512MB DDR2 vs Nvidia Titan Xp

Intro

Compare all of that to the Nvidia Titan Xp, which has core speeds of 1582 MHz on the GPU, and 1426 MHz on the 12288 MB of GDDR5X memory. It features 3840 SPUs along with 240 TAUs and 96 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce 8600 GT 512MB DDR2		47 Watts
Nvidia Titan Xp		250 Watts
	Difference: 203 Watts (432%)

Memory Bandwidth

In theory, the Nvidia Titan Xp will be 4282% faster than the GeForce 8600 GT 512MB DDR2 overall, due to its higher bandwidth. (explain)

Nvidia Titan Xp		560845 MB/sec
GeForce 8600 GT 512MB DDR2		12800 MB/sec
	Difference: 548045 (4282%)

Texel Rate

The Nvidia Titan Xp is quite a bit (about 4294%) better at texture filtering than the GeForce 8600 GT 512MB DDR2. (explain)

Nvidia Titan Xp		379680 Mtexels/sec
GeForce 8600 GT 512MB DDR2		8640 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 371040 (4294%)

Pixel Rate

If running with a high screen resolution is important to you, then the Nvidia Titan Xp is the winner, by a large margin. (explain)

Nvidia Titan Xp		151872 Mpixels/sec
GeForce 8600 GT 512MB 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 max amount of data (in units of MB per second) that can be transported over the external memory interface in one second. It's calculated by multiplying the card's interface width by the speed of its memory. In the case of DDR type RAM, it should be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the memory bandwidth, 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 texture map elements (texels) that are processed per second. This number is calculated by multiplying the total number of texture units by the core 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 in one second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels the video card can possibly write to its local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is calculated by multiplying the amount of Render Output Units by the the card's 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 fill rate also depends on many other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the max fill rate.