GeForce 8800 GTS (G92) vs GeForce GT 1030

Intro

Compare those specs to the GeForce GT 1030, which features core clock speeds of 1265 MHz on the GPU, and 1502 MHz on the 2048 MB of GDDR5 memory. It features 384 SPUs along with 32 Texture Address Units and 16 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GT 1030		30 Watts
GeForce 8800 GTS (G92)		135 Watts
	Difference: 105 Watts (350%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the GeForce 8800 GTS (G92) is 26% faster than the GeForce GT 1030 in general, because of its higher bandwidth. (explain)

GeForce 8800 GTS (G92)		62080 MB/sec
GeForce GT 1030		49152 MB/sec
	Difference: 12928 (26%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce 8800 GTS (G92) should be a small bit (more or less 3%) better at texture filtering than the GeForce GT 1030. (explain)

GeForce 8800 GTS (G92)		41600 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GT 1030		40480 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 1120 (3%)

Pixel Rate

If using a high screen resolution is important to you, then the GeForce GT 1030 is superior to the GeForce 8800 GTS (G92), by a large margin. (explain)

GeForce GT 1030		20240 Mpixels/sec
GeForce 8800 GTS (G92)		10400 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 9840 (95%)

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 information (in units of megabytes per second) that can be moved over the external memory interface within a second. It is calculated by multiplying the card's interface width by the speed of its memory. In the case of DDR type memory, it should be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the card's memory bandwidth, 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 amount of texture map elements (texels) that can be processed in one second. This number is calculated by multiplying the total number of texture units of the card by the core 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 in a second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels that the graphics card can possibly record to the local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is worked out by multiplying the number of colour ROPs by the the core clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - sometimes also referred to as Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel rate also depends on lots of other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the maximum fill rate.