GeForce 8300 GS (OEM) vs GeForce GTX 1060 3GB

Intro

Compare all that to the GeForce GTX 1060 3GB, which has core speeds of 1506 MHz on the GPU, and 2000 MHz on the 3072 MB of GDDR5 RAM. It features 1152 SPUs as well as 72 TAUs and 48 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce 8300 GS (OEM)		40 Watts
GeForce GTX 1060 3GB		120 Watts
	Difference: 80 Watts (200%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the GeForce GTX 1060 3GB should perform quite a bit faster than the GeForce 8300 GS (OEM) overall. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1060 3GB		196608 MB/sec
GeForce 8300 GS (OEM)		6400 MB/sec
	Difference: 190208 (2972%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 1060 3GB is quite a bit (about 5924%) faster with regards to anisotropic filtering than the GeForce 8300 GS (OEM). (explain)

GeForce GTX 1060 3GB		108432 Mtexels/sec
GeForce 8300 GS (OEM)		1800 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 106632 (5924%)

Pixel Rate

If using a high screen resolution is important to you, then the GeForce GTX 1060 3GB is the winner, by far. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1060 3GB		72288 Mpixels/sec
GeForce 8300 GS (OEM)		900 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 71388 (7932%)

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 largest amount of information (counted in megabytes per second) that can be transferred over the external memory interface in one second. The number is calculated by multiplying the bus width by its memory clock speed. If it uses DDR RAM, the result should be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the bandwidth is, 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 amount of texture map elements (texels) that can be processed in one second. This figure is worked out by multiplying the total texture units of the card by the core speed of the chip. The higher this number, the better the graphics 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 most pixels the video card can possibly write to the local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is worked out by multiplying the number of Raster Operations Pipelines 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 output rate is also dependant on lots of other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the maximum fill rate.