GeForce 8800 GT 1GB vs GeForce GT 1030

Intro

Compare those specifications to the GeForce GT 1030, which uses a 16 nm design. nVidia has set the core frequency at 1265 MHz. The GDDR5 RAM works at a speed of 1502 MHz on this card. It features 384 SPUs as well as 32 Texture Address Units and 16 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GT 1030		30 Watts
GeForce 8800 GT 1GB		105 Watts
	Difference: 75 Watts (250%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the GeForce 8800 GT 1GB should be 17% faster than the GeForce GT 1030 overall, due to its higher bandwidth. (explain)

GeForce 8800 GT 1GB		57600 MB/sec
GeForce GT 1030		49152 MB/sec
	Difference: 8448 (17%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GT 1030 should be a little bit (about 20%) better at anisotropic filtering than the GeForce 8800 GT 1GB. (explain)

GeForce GT 1030		40480 Mtexels/sec
GeForce 8800 GT 1GB		33600 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 6880 (20%)

Pixel Rate

The GeForce GT 1030 is quite a bit (about 111%) better at anti-aliasing than the GeForce 8800 GT 1GB, and also capable of handling higher resolutions without slowing down too much. (explain)

GeForce GT 1030		20240 Mpixels/sec
GeForce 8800 GT 1GB		9600 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 10640 (111%)

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 largest amount of data (counted in megabytes per second) that can be transferred over the external memory interface within a second. It's worked out by multiplying the card's bus width by its memory clock speed. If it uses DDR type RAM, it should be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, HDR and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum number of texture map elements (texels) that can be processed in one second. This figure is calculated by multiplying the total texture units 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 in one second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels the video card could possibly write to its local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is calculated by multiplying the number of Render Output Units by the clock 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 fill rate is also dependant on quite a few other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the maximum fill rate.