GeForce 8800 GTS (G92) vs GeForce GT 340 1GB

Intro

Compare all that to the GeForce GT 340 1GB, which has core speeds of 550 MHz on the GPU, and 850 MHz on the 1024 MB of GDDR5 RAM. It features 96 SPUs along with 32 Texture Address Units and 8 Rasterization Operator Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GT 340 1GB		69 Watts
GeForce 8800 GTS (G92)		135 Watts
	Difference: 66 Watts (96%)

Memory Bandwidth

Performance-wise, the GeForce 8800 GTS (G92) should theoretically be a bit superior to the GeForce GT 340 1GB overall. (explain)

GeForce 8800 GTS (G92)		62080 MB/sec
GeForce GT 340 1GB		54400 MB/sec
	Difference: 7680 (14%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce 8800 GTS (G92) will be quite a bit (more or less 136%) faster with regards to anisotropic filtering than the GeForce GT 340 1GB. (explain)

GeForce 8800 GTS (G92)		41600 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GT 340 1GB		17600 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 24000 (136%)

Pixel Rate

If running with a high screen resolution is important to you, then the GeForce 8800 GTS (G92) is superior to the GeForce GT 340 1GB, by a large margin. (explain)

GeForce 8800 GTS (G92)		10400 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GT 340 1GB		4400 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 6000 (136%)

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 (counted in megabytes per second) that can be transported over the external memory interface within a second. It's calculated by multiplying the interface width by the speed of its memory. If it uses DDR RAM, it must be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the 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 number of texture map elements (texels) that are processed per second. This figure is calculated by multiplying the total number of texture units by the core clock speed of the chip. The higher this number, the better the video card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels processed per second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels that the graphics chip can possibly write to the local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is worked out by multiplying the number of ROPs by the clock speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - aka Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel rate also depends on many other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the max fill rate.