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GeForce 8800 GT 512MB vs GeForce GTX 1050

Intro

The GeForce 8800 GT 512MB comes with core speeds of 600 MHz on the GPU, and 900 MHz on the 512 MB of GDDR3 RAM. It features 112 SPUs along with 56 TAUs and 16 ROPs.

Compare all of that to the GeForce GTX 1050, which comes with a core clock speed of 1354 MHz and a GDDR5 memory frequency of 1750 MHz. It also makes use of a 128-bit memory bus, and makes use of a 14 nm design. It is made up of 640 SPUs, 40 Texture Address Units, and 32 Raster Operation Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GTX 1050 75 Watts
GeForce 8800 GT 512MB 105 Watts
Difference: 30 Watts (40%)

Memory Bandwidth

As far as performance goes, the GeForce GTX 1050 should in theory be quite a bit better than the GeForce 8800 GT 512MB in general. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1050 114688 MB/sec
GeForce 8800 GT 512MB 57600 MB/sec
Difference: 57088 (99%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 1050 will be a lot (about 61%) better at anisotropic filtering than the GeForce 8800 GT 512MB. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1050 54160 Mtexels/sec
GeForce 8800 GT 512MB 33600 Mtexels/sec
Difference: 20560 (61%)

Pixel Rate

The GeForce GTX 1050 should be quite a bit (about 351%) more effective at AA than the GeForce 8800 GT 512MB, and also able to handle higher screen resolutions better. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1050 43328 Mpixels/sec
GeForce 8800 GT 512MB 9600 Mpixels/sec
Difference: 33728 (351%)

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

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Specifications

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Model GeForce 8800 GT 512MB GeForce GTX 1050
Manufacturer nVidia nVidia
Year Oct 2007 October 2016
Code Name G92 GP107-300
Memory 512 MB 2048 MB
Core Speed 600 MHz 1354 MHz
Memory Speed 1800 MHz 7000 MHz
Power (Max TDP) 105 watts 75 watts
Bandwidth 57600 MB/sec 114688 MB/sec
Texel Rate 33600 Mtexels/sec 54160 Mtexels/sec
Pixel Rate 9600 Mpixels/sec 43328 Mpixels/sec
Unified Shaders 112 640
Texture Mapping Units 56 40
Render Output Units 16 32
Bus Type GDDR3 GDDR5
Bus Width 256-bit 128-bit
Fab Process 65 nm 14 nm
Transistors 754 million 3300 million
Bus PCIe x16 2.0 PCIe 3.0 x16
DirectX Version DirectX 10 DirectX 12.0
OpenGL Version OpenGL 3.0 OpenGL 4.5

Memory Bandwidth: Bandwidth is the maximum amount of information (counted in megabytes per second) that can be transported across the external memory interface in a second. It is worked out by multiplying the interface width by the speed of its memory. If the card has DDR memory, it should be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the memory bandwidth, the better 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 can be processed per second. This figure is worked out by multiplying the total amount of texture units of the card by the core clock speed of the chip. The better the texel rate, the better the video 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 maximum number of pixels that the graphics card can possibly record to its local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is calculated by multiplying the amount of Render Output Units by the the core speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - sometimes also referred to as Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel output rate also depends on lots of other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the max fill rate.

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