GeForce 9800 GTX vs GeForce RTX 3080 Ti

Intro

Compare all of that to the GeForce RTX 3080 Ti, which comes with core speeds of 1365 MHz on the GPU, and 1188 MHz on the 12288 MB of GDDR6X RAM. It features 10240 SPUs along with 320 TAUs and 112 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce 9800 GTX		140 Watts
GeForce RTX 3080 Ti		350 Watts
	Difference: 210 Watts (150%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the GeForce RTX 3080 Ti should be a lot faster than the GeForce 9800 GTX in general. (explain)

GeForce RTX 3080 Ti		934297 MB/sec
GeForce 9800 GTX		70400 MB/sec
	Difference: 863897 (1227%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce RTX 3080 Ti should be a lot (about 911%) more effective at AF than the GeForce 9800 GTX. (explain)

GeForce RTX 3080 Ti		436800 Mtexels/sec
GeForce 9800 GTX		43200 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 393600 (911%)

Pixel Rate

The GeForce RTX 3080 Ti will be much (approximately 1316%) more effective at FSAA than the GeForce 9800 GTX, and also should be capable of handling higher resolutions without slowing down too much. (explain)

GeForce RTX 3080 Ti		152880 Mpixels/sec
GeForce 9800 GTX		10800 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 142080 (1316%)

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 max amount of information (counted in megabytes per second) that can be transferred across the external memory interface in a second. It's worked out by multiplying the card's bus width by the speed of its memory. If it uses DDR memory, it must be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, High Dynamic Range and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum amount of texture map elements (texels) that can be processed per second. This number is calculated by multiplying the total texture units of the card by the core speed of the chip. The higher this number, the better the card will be at handling 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 the video card could possibly write to the local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is calculated by multiplying the amount of Render Output Units by the the card's clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - sometimes also referred to as Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel fill rate is also dependant on lots of other factors, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the maximum fill rate.