GeForce 8800 GTS (G92) vs GeForce GTX 570

Intro

Compare that to the GeForce GTX 570, which uses a 40 nm design. nVidia has set the core speed at 732 MHz. The GDDR5 RAM runs at a speed of 950 MHz on this particular card. It features 480 SPUs along with 60 Texture Address Units and 40 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce 8800 GTS (G92)		135 Watts
GeForce GTX 570		219 Watts
	Difference: 84 Watts (62%)

Memory Bandwidth

The GeForce GTX 570, in theory, should perform quite a bit faster than the GeForce 8800 GTS (G92) in general. (explain)

GeForce GTX 570		152000 MB/sec
GeForce 8800 GTS (G92)		62080 MB/sec
	Difference: 89920 (145%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 570 should be a small bit (more or less 6%) more effective at AF than the GeForce 8800 GTS (G92). (explain)

GeForce GTX 570		43920 Mtexels/sec
GeForce 8800 GTS (G92)		41600 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 2320 (6%)

Pixel Rate

If using a high resolution is important to you, then the GeForce GTX 570 is a better choice, by a large margin. (explain)

GeForce GTX 570		29280 Mpixels/sec
GeForce 8800 GTS (G92)		10400 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 18880 (182%)

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 maximum amount of information (in units of megabytes per second) that can be moved past the external memory interface within a second. It is worked out by multiplying the bus width by the speed of its memory. If it uses DDR RAM, it must be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the card's memory bandwidth, 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 texture map elements (texels) that are applied in one second. This number is worked out by multiplying the total texture units of the card by the core speed of the chip. The better the texel rate, the better the card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels applied per second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels that the graphics chip could possibly record to its local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is calculated by multiplying the amount of Render Output Units by the the core clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - aka Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel rate is also dependant on many other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the maximum fill rate.