GeForce 8800 GT 512MB vs GeForce 9800 GTX+

Intro

The GeForce 8800 GT 512MB makes use of a 65 nm design. nVidia has set the core speed at 600 MHz. The GDDR3 RAM runs at a frequency of 900 MHz on this particular card. It features 112 SPUs as well as 56 TAUs and 16 ROPs.

Compare all of that to the GeForce 9800 GTX+, which uses a 55 nm design. nVidia has set the core frequency at 738 MHz. The GDDR3 RAM runs at a frequency of 1100 MHz on this particular model. It features 128 SPUs as well as 64 Texture Address Units and 16 ROPs.

Price Comparison

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Specifications

Model	GeForce 8800 GT 512MB	GeForce 9800 GTX+
Manufacturer	nVidia	nVidia
Year	Oct 2007	July 2008
Code Name	G92	G92b
Fab Process	65 nm	55 nm
Bus	PCIe x16 2.0	PCIe x16 2.0
Memory	512 MB	512 MB
Core Speed	600 MHz	738 MHz
Shader Speed	1500 MHz	1836 MHz
Memory Speed	900 MHz	1100 MHz
Unified Shaders	112	128
Texture Mapping Units	56	64
Render Output Units	16	16
Bus Type	GDDR3	GDDR3
Bus Width	256-bit	256-bit
DirectX Version	DirectX 10	DirectX 10
OpenGL Version	OpenGL 3.0	OpenGL 3.0
Power (Max TDP)	105 watts	145 watts
Shader Model	4.0	4.0
Bandwidth	57600 MB/sec	70400 MB/sec
Texel Rate	33600 Mtexels/sec	47232 Mtexels/sec
Pixel Rate	9600 Mpixels/sec	11808 Mpixels/sec

Memory Bandwidth: Bandwidth is the largest amount of information (in units of megabytes per second) that can be transferred over the external memory interface in a second. It is worked out by multiplying the card's interface width by the speed of its memory. If it uses DDR type memory, it must be multiplied by 2 once 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 AA, High Dynamic Range and higher screen resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum amount of texture map elements (texels) that are 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 better the texel rate, the better the card will be at texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels per second.

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