GeForce 8800 GS vs GeForce GTX 1060 3GB

Intro

Compare those specs to the GeForce GTX 1060 3GB, which comes with core speeds of 1506 MHz on the GPU, and 2000 MHz on the 3072 MB of GDDR5 memory. It features 1152 SPUs as well as 72 Texture Address Units and 48 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce 8800 GS		105 Watts
GeForce GTX 1060 3GB		120 Watts
	Difference: 15 Watts (14%)

Memory Bandwidth

In theory, the GeForce GTX 1060 3GB is 412% quicker than the GeForce 8800 GS in general, due to its higher bandwidth. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1060 3GB		196608 MB/sec
GeForce 8800 GS		38400 MB/sec
	Difference: 158208 (412%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 1060 3GB should be a lot (more or less 311%) better at anisotropic filtering than the GeForce 8800 GS. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1060 3GB		108432 Mtexels/sec
GeForce 8800 GS		26400 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 82032 (311%)

Pixel Rate

If using lots of anti-aliasing is important to you, then the GeForce GTX 1060 3GB is superior to the GeForce 8800 GS, by a large margin. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1060 3GB		72288 Mpixels/sec
GeForce 8800 GS		6600 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 65688 (995%)

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 information (in units of MB per second) that can be transported across the external memory interface in a second. It is calculated by multiplying the card's bus width by the speed of its memory. In the case of DDR RAM, it must 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 amount of texture map elements (texels) that are applied in one second. This is calculated by multiplying the total amount of texture units 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 applied per second.

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