GeForce 8600 GTS vs Nvidia Titan X

Intro

Compare all that to the Nvidia Titan X, which comes with a core clock frequency of 1417 MHz and a GDDR5X memory frequency of 1251 MHz. It also uses a 384-bit bus, and uses a 16 nm design. It is made up of 3584 SPUs, 224 TAUs, and 96 Raster Operation Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce 8600 GTS		75 Watts
Nvidia Titan X		250 Watts
	Difference: 175 Watts (233%)

Memory Bandwidth

The Nvidia Titan X should in theory perform quite a bit faster than the GeForce 8600 GTS in general. (explain)

Nvidia Titan X		491520 MB/sec
GeForce 8600 GTS		32000 MB/sec
	Difference: 459520 (1436%)

Texel Rate

The Nvidia Titan X will be quite a bit (approximately 2839%) more effective at texture filtering than the GeForce 8600 GTS. (explain)

Nvidia Titan X		317408 Mtexels/sec
GeForce 8600 GTS		10800 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 306608 (2839%)

Pixel Rate

If using a high resolution is important to you, then the Nvidia Titan X is superior to the GeForce 8600 GTS, by a large margin. (explain)

Nvidia Titan X		136032 Mpixels/sec
GeForce 8600 GTS		5400 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 130632 (2419%)

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 data (in units of MB per second) that can be transported across the external memory interface within a second. It's worked out by multiplying the card's interface width by its memory speed. If it uses DDR type RAM, the result should be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the card's memory bandwidth, 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 texture map elements (texels) that can be applied in one second. This is calculated by multiplying the total texture units of the card by the core clock speed of the chip. The higher this number, the better the video card will be at texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels in a second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels the video card can possibly write to its local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is calculated by multiplying the amount of ROPs 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 also depends on lots of other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the max fill rate.