GeForce 8600 GT 1GB GDDR3 vs GeForce GTX Titan

Intro

Compare those specifications to the GeForce GTX Titan, which has core speeds of 837 MHz on the GPU, and 1502 MHz on the 6144 MB of GDDR5 RAM. It features 2688 SPUs as well as 224 Texture Address Units and 48 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce 8600 GT 1GB GDDR3		47 Watts
GeForce GTX Titan		250 Watts
	Difference: 203 Watts (432%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the GeForce GTX Titan should be a lot faster than the GeForce 8600 GT 1GB GDDR3 overall. (explain)

GeForce GTX Titan		288384 MB/sec
GeForce 8600 GT 1GB GDDR3		22400 MB/sec
	Difference: 265984 (1187%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX Titan should be a lot (approximately 2070%) more effective at AF than the GeForce 8600 GT 1GB GDDR3. (explain)

GeForce GTX Titan		187488 Mtexels/sec
GeForce 8600 GT 1GB GDDR3		8640 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 178848 (2070%)

Pixel Rate

The GeForce GTX Titan will be a lot (more or less 830%) more effective at FSAA than the GeForce 8600 GT 1GB GDDR3, and also will be capable of handling higher resolutions without slowing down too much. (explain)

GeForce GTX Titan		40176 Mpixels/sec
GeForce 8600 GT 1GB GDDR3		4320 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 35856 (830%)

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 data (in units of megabytes per second) that can be transported past the external memory interface in one second. It is calculated by multiplying the card's bus width by its memory speed. In the case of DDR type memory, the result should be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the bandwidth is, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, High Dynamic Range and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum amount of texture map elements (texels) that are applied in one second. This is calculated by multiplying the total number of texture units of the card by the core clock 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 applied in one second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels the graphics card could possibly write to its local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is calculated by multiplying the amount of colour ROPs 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 fill rate is also dependant on lots of other factors, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the max fill rate.