GeForce 8800 GTS (G92) vs GeForce GTX 960M

Intro

Compare those specs to the GeForce GTX 960M, which has core clock speeds of 1096 MHz on the GPU, and 1000 MHz on the 2048 MB of GDDR5 memory. It features 640 SPUs along with 40 Texture Address Units and 16 Rasterization Operator Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GTX 960M		65 Watts
GeForce 8800 GTS (G92)		135 Watts
	Difference: 70 Watts (108%)

Memory Bandwidth

In theory, the GeForce GTX 960M should be a small bit faster than the GeForce 8800 GTS (G92) in general. (explain)

GeForce GTX 960M		64000 MB/sec
GeForce 8800 GTS (G92)		62080 MB/sec
	Difference: 1920 (3%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 960M should be just a bit (more or less 5%) better at texture filtering than the GeForce 8800 GTS (G92). (explain)

GeForce GTX 960M		43840 Mtexels/sec
GeForce 8800 GTS (G92)		41600 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 2240 (5%)

Pixel Rate

If running with a high resolution is important to you, then the GeForce GTX 960M is superior to the GeForce 8800 GTS (G92), by a large margin. (explain)

GeForce GTX 960M		17536 Mpixels/sec
GeForce 8800 GTS (G92)		10400 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 7136 (69%)

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 MB per second) that can be transferred over the external memory interface in a second. It's calculated by multiplying the card's interface width by its memory clock speed. In the case of DDR type memory, it should be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher 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 texture map elements (texels) that are applied per second. This figure is calculated by multiplying the total amount of texture units of the card 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 processed in one second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels that the graphics chip can possibly write to the local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is worked out by multiplying the amount of Raster Operations Pipelines 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 rate is also dependant on many 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.