GeForce 8800 Ultra vs Nvidia Titan X

Intro

Compare those specifications to the Nvidia Titan X, which features a core clock speed of 1417 MHz and a GDDR5X memory frequency of 1251 MHz. It also makes use of a 384-bit memory bus, and makes use of a 16 nm design. It is comprised of 3584 SPUs, 224 TAUs, and 96 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce 8800 Ultra		171 Watts
Nvidia Titan X		250 Watts
	Difference: 79 Watts (46%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically, the Nvidia Titan X should perform a lot faster than the GeForce 8800 Ultra in general. (explain)

Nvidia Titan X		491520 MB/sec
GeForce 8800 Ultra		103680 MB/sec
	Difference: 387840 (374%)

Texel Rate

The Nvidia Titan X will be quite a bit (approximately 710%) better at texture filtering than the GeForce 8800 Ultra. (explain)

Nvidia Titan X		317408 Mtexels/sec
GeForce 8800 Ultra		39168 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 278240 (710%)

Pixel Rate

The Nvidia Titan X should be much (approximately 826%) more effective at AA than the GeForce 8800 Ultra, and also will be able to handle higher screen resolutions without slowing down too much. (explain)

Nvidia Titan X		136032 Mpixels/sec
GeForce 8800 Ultra		14688 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 121344 (826%)

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 max amount of information (in units of MB per second) that can be moved over the external memory interface in one second. It's calculated by multiplying the card's interface width by its memory clock speed. If the card has DDR RAM, the result should be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the memory bandwidth, the better 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 number is calculated by multiplying the total number of texture units of the card by the core speed of the chip. The higher the texel rate, the better the graphics card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels applied in a second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels that the graphics chip could possibly record to the local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is worked out by multiplying the number of colour ROPs by the the card's clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also called Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel fill rate also depends on many 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.