GeForce 8800 GT 512MB vs GeForce GTX 1070 Ti

Intro

Compare those specifications to the GeForce GTX 1070 Ti, which comes with core clock speeds of 1607 MHz on the GPU, and 2000 MHz on the 8192 MB of GDDR5 RAM. It features 2432 SPUs as well as 152 Texture Address Units and 64 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce 8800 GT 512MB		105 Watts
GeForce GTX 1070 Ti		180 Watts
	Difference: 75 Watts (71%)

Memory Bandwidth

In theory, the GeForce GTX 1070 Ti will be 355% faster than the GeForce 8800 GT 512MB in general, due to its greater bandwidth. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1070 Ti		262144 MB/sec
GeForce 8800 GT 512MB		57600 MB/sec
	Difference: 204544 (355%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 1070 Ti should be a lot (approximately 627%) faster with regards to anisotropic filtering than the GeForce 8800 GT 512MB. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1070 Ti		244264 Mtexels/sec
GeForce 8800 GT 512MB		33600 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 210664 (627%)

Pixel Rate

If using lots of anti-aliasing is important to you, then the GeForce GTX 1070 Ti is a better choice, by far. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1070 Ti		102848 Mpixels/sec
GeForce 8800 GT 512MB		9600 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 93248 (971%)

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 information (in units of MB per second) that can be moved over the external memory interface in a second. It's worked out by multiplying the card's bus width by its memory speed. In the case of DDR memory, it must be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, HDR and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum amount of texture map elements (texels) that are applied per second. This number is worked out by multiplying the total number of texture units of the card by the core clock speed of the chip. The better the texel rate, the better the graphics card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels applied in one second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels that the graphics chip could possibly record to the local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is calculated by multiplying the number of ROPs by the clock speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - aka Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel rate is also dependant on lots of other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the max fill rate.