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GeForce 8800 GT 512MB vs GeForce GTX 550 Ti

Intro

The GeForce 8800 GT 512MB features clock speeds of 600 MHz on the GPU, and 900 MHz on the 512 MB of GDDR3 memory. It features 112 SPUs as well as 56 Texture Address Units and 16 ROPs.

Compare those specs to the GeForce GTX 550 Ti, which has a GPU core clock speed of 900 MHz, and 1024 MB of GDDR5 RAM set to run at 1026 MHz through a 192-bit bus. It also is made up of 192 Stream Processors, 32 TAUs, and 24 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce 8800 GT 512MB 105 Watts
GeForce GTX 550 Ti 116 Watts
Difference: 11 Watts (10%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the GeForce GTX 550 Ti should be 71% faster than the GeForce 8800 GT 512MB in general, because of its higher bandwidth. (explain)

GeForce GTX 550 Ti 98496 MB/sec
GeForce 8800 GT 512MB 57600 MB/sec
Difference: 40896 (71%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce 8800 GT 512MB should be a bit (about 17%) faster with regards to AF than the GeForce GTX 550 Ti. (explain)

GeForce 8800 GT 512MB 33600 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 550 Ti 28800 Mtexels/sec
Difference: 4800 (17%)

Pixel Rate

If running with a high screen resolution is important to you, then the GeForce GTX 550 Ti is a better choice, by a large margin. (explain)

GeForce GTX 550 Ti 21600 Mpixels/sec
GeForce 8800 GT 512MB 9600 Mpixels/sec
Difference: 12000 (125%)

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 GT 512MB GeForce GTX 550 Ti
Manufacturer nVidia nVidia
Year Oct 2007 March 2011
Code Name G92 GF116
Memory 512 MB 1024 MB
Core Speed 600 MHz 900 MHz
Memory Speed 1800 MHz 4104 MHz
Power (Max TDP) 105 watts 116 watts
Bandwidth 57600 MB/sec 98496 MB/sec
Texel Rate 33600 Mtexels/sec 28800 Mtexels/sec
Pixel Rate 9600 Mpixels/sec 21600 Mpixels/sec
Unified Shaders 112 192
Texture Mapping Units 56 32
Render Output Units 16 24
Bus Type GDDR3 GDDR5
Bus Width 256-bit 192-bit
Fab Process 65 nm 40 nm
Transistors 754 million 1170 million
Bus PCIe x16 2.0 PCIe 2.1 x16
DirectX Version DirectX 10 DirectX 11
OpenGL Version OpenGL 3.0 OpenGL 4.1

Memory Bandwidth: Memory bandwidth is the largest amount of information (in units of megabytes per second) that can be transported across the external memory interface within a second. It is calculated by multiplying the card's interface width by the speed of its memory. In the case of DDR type memory, it should be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the memory bandwidth, 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 texture map elements (texels) that are applied per second. This is worked out by multiplying the total amount of texture units by the core speed of the chip. The higher 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 the graphics card could possibly write to its local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is worked out by multiplying the number of Render Output Units by the clock 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 lots of 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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GeForce 8800 GT 512MB

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