GeForce 8800 GTS (G92) vs GeForce 9800 GT 512MB

Intro

The GeForce 8800 GTS (G92) uses a 65 nm design. nVidia has clocked the core frequency at 650 MHz. The GDDR3 memory works at a speed of 970 MHz on this particular model. It features 128 SPUs as well as 64 Texture Address Units and 16 Rasterization Operator Units.

Compare all of that to the GeForce 9800 GT 512MB, which has a core clock speed of 600 MHz and a GDDR3 memory speed of 900 MHz. It also makes use of a 256-bit memory bus, and uses a 65/55 nm design. It is made up of 112 SPUs, 56 TAUs, and 16 ROPs.

Price Comparison

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Specifications

Model	GeForce 8800 GTS (G92)	GeForce 9800 GT 512MB
Manufacturer	nVidia	nVidia
Year	Dec 2007	July 2008
Code Name	G92	G92a/b
Fab Process	65 nm	65/55 nm
Bus	PCIe x16 2.0	PCIe x16 2.0
Memory	512 MB	512 MB
Core Speed	650 MHz	600 MHz
Shader Speed	1625 MHz	1500 MHz
Memory Speed	970 MHz	900 MHz
Unified Shaders	128	112
Texture Mapping Units	64	56
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)	135 watts	105 watts
Shader Model	4.0	4.0
Bandwidth	62080 MB/sec	57600 MB/sec
Texel Rate	41600 Mtexels/sec	33600 Mtexels/sec
Pixel Rate	10400 Mpixels/sec	9600 Mpixels/sec

Memory Bandwidth: Bandwidth is the maximum amount of information (counted in megabytes per second) that can be transported across the external memory interface in a second. It is worked out by multiplying the card's bus width by the speed of its memory. If the card has DDR type RAM, the result should be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the bandwidth is, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, HDR and high resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels that the graphics chip could possibly record to the local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is calculated by multiplying the amount of ROPs by the the core clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - aka Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel output rate is also dependant on quite a few other factors, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the maximum fill rate.