GeForce 8600 GTS vs GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER

Intro

Compare all of that to the GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER, which uses a 12 nm design. nVidia has clocked the core speed at 1650 MHz. The GDDR6 memory works at a speed of 1937 MHz on this particular card. It features 3072 SPUs as well as 192 TAUs and 64 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce 8600 GTS		75 Watts
GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER		250 Watts
	Difference: 175 Watts (233%)

Memory Bandwidth

The GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER should theoretically be a lot faster than the GeForce 8600 GTS in general. (explain)

GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER		507904 MB/sec
GeForce 8600 GTS		32000 MB/sec
	Difference: 475904 (1487%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER will be much (more or less 2833%) more effective at anisotropic filtering than the GeForce 8600 GTS. (explain)

GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER		316800 Mtexels/sec
GeForce 8600 GTS		10800 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 306000 (2833%)

Pixel Rate

The GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER will be a lot (approximately 1856%) better at AA than the GeForce 8600 GTS, and will be capable of handling higher resolutions more effectively. (explain)

GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER		105600 Mpixels/sec
GeForce 8600 GTS		5400 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 100200 (1856%)

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 information (in units of megabytes per second) that can be transferred over the external memory interface in a second. It is worked out by multiplying the bus width by its memory clock speed. If it uses DDR memory, it should be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the bandwidth is, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, HDR and higher screen resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels the graphics card can possibly record to the local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is calculated by multiplying the amount of Render Output Units by the the core speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also sometimes called Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel fill rate also depends on quite a few other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the max fill rate.