GeForce 8800 GS vs GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER

Intro

Compare all of that to the GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER, which uses a 12 nm design. nVidia has set the core speed at 1650 MHz. The GDDR6 memory works at a speed of 1937 MHz on this card. It features 3072 SPUs along with 192 Texture Address Units and 64 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce 8800 GS		105 Watts
GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER		250 Watts
	Difference: 145 Watts (138%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER is 1223% faster than the GeForce 8800 GS in general, due to its higher bandwidth. (explain)

GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER		507904 MB/sec
GeForce 8800 GS		38400 MB/sec
	Difference: 469504 (1223%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER is a lot (approximately 1100%) better at texture filtering than the GeForce 8800 GS. (explain)

GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER		316800 Mtexels/sec
GeForce 8800 GS		26400 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 290400 (1100%)

Pixel Rate

The GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER is much (about 1500%) better at full screen anti-aliasing than the GeForce 8800 GS, and also will be able to handle higher screen resolutions better. (explain)

GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER		105600 Mpixels/sec
GeForce 8800 GS		6600 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 99000 (1500%)

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 (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 the speed of its memory. In the case of DDR type memory, it should be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the bandwidth is, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, High Dynamic Range and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum number of texture map elements (texels) that are applied per second. This is calculated by multiplying the total texture units by the core speed of the chip. The higher this number, the better the graphics card will be at texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels applied per second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels that the graphics chip can possibly write to the local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is worked out by multiplying the number of Render Output Units 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 is also dependant on lots of other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the max fill rate.