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GeForce 8600 GT 512MB DDR2 vs Geforce GTX 1080 Ti

Intro

The GeForce 8600 GT 512MB DDR2 has a GPU clock speed of 540 MHz, and the 512 MB of DDR2 RAM runs at 400 MHz through a 128-bit bus. It also features 32 SPUs, 16 Texture Address Units, and 8 ROPs.

Compare those specifications to the Geforce GTX 1080 Ti, which has core clock speeds of 1480 MHz on the GPU, and 1376 MHz on the 11264 MB of GDDR5X memory. It features 3584 SPUs as well as 224 Texture Address Units and 88 Rasterization Operator Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce 8600 GT 512MB DDR2 47 Watts
Geforce GTX 1080 Ti 250 Watts
Difference: 203 Watts (432%)

Memory Bandwidth

The Geforce GTX 1080 Ti should theoretically perform much faster than the GeForce 8600 GT 512MB DDR2 in general. (explain)

Geforce GTX 1080 Ti 495616 MB/sec
GeForce 8600 GT 512MB DDR2 12800 MB/sec
Difference: 482816 (3772%)

Texel Rate

The Geforce GTX 1080 Ti will be much (more or less 3737%) faster with regards to AF than the GeForce 8600 GT 512MB DDR2. (explain)

Geforce GTX 1080 Ti 331520 Mtexels/sec
GeForce 8600 GT 512MB DDR2 8640 Mtexels/sec
Difference: 322880 (3737%)

Pixel Rate

The Geforce GTX 1080 Ti is much (more or less 2915%) faster with regards to FSAA than the GeForce 8600 GT 512MB DDR2, and should be able to handle higher screen resolutions without losing too much performance. (explain)

Geforce GTX 1080 Ti 130240 Mpixels/sec
GeForce 8600 GT 512MB DDR2 4320 Mpixels/sec
Difference: 125920 (2915%)

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.

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Specifications

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Model GeForce 8600 GT 512MB DDR2 Geforce GTX 1080 Ti
Manufacturer nVidia nVidia
Year April 2007 March 2017
Code Name G84 GP102
Memory 512 MB 11264 MB
Core Speed 540 MHz 1480 MHz
Memory Speed 800 MHz 11008 MHz
Power (Max TDP) 47 watts 250 watts
Bandwidth 12800 MB/sec 495616 MB/sec
Texel Rate 8640 Mtexels/sec 331520 Mtexels/sec
Pixel Rate 4320 Mpixels/sec 130240 Mpixels/sec
Unified Shaders 32 3584
Texture Mapping Units 16 224
Render Output Units 8 88
Bus Type DDR2 GDDR5X
Bus Width 128-bit 352-bit
Fab Process 80 nm 16 nm
Transistors 289 million 12000 million
Bus PCIe x16 PCIe 3.0 x16
DirectX Version DirectX 10 DirectX 12.0
OpenGL Version OpenGL 3.0 OpenGL 4.5

Memory Bandwidth: Memory bandwidth is the max amount of information (counted in MB per second) that can be moved over the external memory interface in a second. It's calculated by multiplying the card's interface width by the speed of its memory. If it uses DDR type RAM, the result should be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the bandwidth is, 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 texture map elements (texels) that are processed per second. This figure is worked out by multiplying the total texture units by the core clock speed of the chip. The higher the texel rate, the better the graphics card will be at texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels applied in a second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels the graphics card can possibly record to its local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is calculated by multiplying the number of colour ROPs by the the card's clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - aka Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel rate is also dependant on quite a few other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the maximum fill rate.

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GeForce 8600 GT 512MB DDR2

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