GeForce 8800 GS vs GeForce GTX 1080

Intro

Compare all of that to the GeForce GTX 1080, which features clock speeds of 1607 MHz on the GPU, and 1251 MHz on the 8192 MB of GDDR5X RAM. It features 2560 SPUs as well as 160 TAUs and 64 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce 8800 GS		105 Watts
GeForce GTX 1080		180 Watts
	Difference: 75 Watts (71%)

Memory Bandwidth

In theory, the GeForce GTX 1080 should perform quite a bit faster than the GeForce 8800 GS in general. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1080		327680 MB/sec
GeForce 8800 GS		38400 MB/sec
	Difference: 289280 (753%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 1080 will be a lot (more or less 874%) better at anisotropic filtering than the GeForce 8800 GS. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1080		257120 Mtexels/sec
GeForce 8800 GS		26400 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 230720 (874%)

Pixel Rate

If using a high screen resolution is important to you, then the GeForce GTX 1080 is the winner, by far. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1080		102848 Mpixels/sec
GeForce 8800 GS		6600 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 96248 (1458%)

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: Memory bandwidth is the max amount of information (measured in MB per second) that can be transferred 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 type memory, it should be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the bandwidth is, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, High Dynamic Range and higher screen resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum amount of texture map elements (texels) that can be applied 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 the texel rate, the better the card will be at texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels per second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels the graphics card can possibly write to its local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is calculated by multiplying the amount of colour ROPs by the the card's clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also sometimes called Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel fill rate is also dependant on quite a few other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the maximum fill rate.