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GeForce 8800 GTS (G80) 320MB vs GeForce 9600 GT 1GB

Intro

The GeForce 8800 GTS (G80) 320MB features core speeds of 513 MHz on the GPU, and 792 MHz on the 320 MB of GDDR3 memory. It features 96 SPUs as well as 48 Texture Address Units and 20 Rasterization Operator Units.

Compare those specs to the GeForce 9600 GT 1GB, which uses a 65/55 nm design. nVidia has set the core speed at 650 MHz. The GDDR3 memory works at a speed of 900 MHz on this particular card. It features 64 SPUs as well as 32 Texture Address Units and 16 Rasterization Operator Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce 9600 GT 1GB 95 Watts
GeForce 8800 GTS (G80) 320MB 143 Watts
Difference: 48 Watts (51%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the GeForce 8800 GTS (G80) 320MB will be 10% faster than the GeForce 9600 GT 1GB overall, due to its greater bandwidth. (explain)

GeForce 8800 GTS (G80) 320MB 63360 MB/sec
GeForce 9600 GT 1GB 57600 MB/sec
Difference: 5760 (10%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce 8800 GTS (G80) 320MB should be a little bit (approximately 18%) more effective at AF than the GeForce 9600 GT 1GB. (explain)

GeForce 8800 GTS (G80) 320MB 24624 Mtexels/sec
GeForce 9600 GT 1GB 20800 Mtexels/sec
Difference: 3824 (18%)

Pixel Rate

If using a high screen resolution is important to you, then the GeForce 9600 GT 1GB is the winner, but only just. (explain)

GeForce 9600 GT 1GB 10400 Mpixels/sec
GeForce 8800 GTS (G80) 320MB 10260 Mpixels/sec
Difference: 140 (1%)

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.

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Specifications

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Model GeForce 8800 GTS (G80) 320MB GeForce 9600 GT 1GB
Manufacturer nVidia nVidia
Year Feb 2007 Feb 2008
Code Name G80 G94a/b
Memory 320 MB 1024 MB
Core Speed 513 MHz 650 MHz
Memory Speed 1584 MHz 1800 MHz
Power (Max TDP) 143 watts 95 watts
Bandwidth 63360 MB/sec 57600 MB/sec
Texel Rate 24624 Mtexels/sec 20800 Mtexels/sec
Pixel Rate 10260 Mpixels/sec 10400 Mpixels/sec
Unified Shaders 96 64
Texture Mapping Units 48 32
Render Output Units 20 16
Bus Type GDDR3 GDDR3
Bus Width 320-bit 256-bit
Fab Process 90 nm 65/55 nm
Transistors 681 million 505 million
Bus PCIe x16 PCIe x16 2.0
DirectX Version DirectX 10 DirectX 10
OpenGL Version OpenGL 3.0 OpenGL 3.0

Memory Bandwidth: Bandwidth is the maximum amount of information (counted in MB per second) that can be transferred past the external memory interface in a second. The number is worked out by multiplying the bus width by the speed of its memory. If it uses DDR memory, it should be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the bandwidth is, 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 amount of texture map elements (texels) that are processed in one second. This figure is worked out by multiplying the total texture units by the core speed of the chip. The higher the texel rate, the better the video 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 maximum number of pixels that the graphics chip can possibly write to the local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is worked out by multiplying the number of colour ROPs by the the core speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - sometimes also referred to as Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel output rate is also dependant on many other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the max fill rate.

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