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GeForce 8800 Ultra vs GeForce GT 340
IntroThe GeForce 8800 Ultra makes use of a 90 nm design. nVidia has clocked the core speed at 612 MHz. The GDDR3 RAM is set to run at a frequency of 1080 MHz on this particular card. It features 128 SPUs along with 64 Texture Address Units and 24 Rasterization Operator Units.Compare those specifications to the GeForce GT 340, which features a core clock frequency of 550 MHz and a GDDR5 memory frequency of 850 MHz. It also uses a 128-bit memory bus, and uses a 40 nm design. It is made up of 96 SPUs, 32 Texture Address Units, and 8 ROPs.
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Memory BandwidthTheoretically speaking, the GeForce 8800 Ultra should perform a lot faster than the GeForce GT 340 overall. (explain)
Texel RateThe GeForce 8800 Ultra is quite a bit (more or less 123%) better at texture filtering than the GeForce GT 340. (explain)
Pixel RateThe GeForce 8800 Ultra is much (approximately 234%) better at FSAA than the GeForce GT 340, and also should be able to handle higher resolutions more effectively. (explain)
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
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Memory Bandwidth: Memory bandwidth is the max amount of data (measured in megabytes per second) that can be transferred over the external memory interface within a second. The number is calculated by multiplying the bus width by the speed of its memory. If it uses DDR RAM, the result should be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses 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 texture map elements (texels) that can be processed per second. This figure is worked out by multiplying the total texture units of the card by the core clock speed of the chip. The better this number, the better the video 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 the video card could possibly record to the local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is worked out by multiplying the number of ROPs by the the card's clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also called Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel fill rate also depends on quite a few other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the max fill rate.
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Please note that the price comparisons are based on search keywords - sometimes it might show cards with very similar names that are not exactly the same as the one chosen in the comparison. We do try to filter out the wrong results as best we can, though.
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