GeForce 9600 GSO 384MB vs GeForce GTX 660 Ti

Intro

Compare those specifications to the GeForce GTX 660 Ti, which features core clock speeds of 915 MHz on the GPU, and 1500 MHz on the 2048 MB of GDDR5 memory. It features 1344 SPUs along with 112 Texture Address Units and 24 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce 9600 GSO 384MB		84 Watts
GeForce GTX 660 Ti		150 Watts
	Difference: 66 Watts (79%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the GeForce GTX 660 Ti should be a lot faster than the GeForce 9600 GSO 384MB in general. (explain)

GeForce GTX 660 Ti		144000 MB/sec
GeForce 9600 GSO 384MB		38400 MB/sec
	Difference: 105600 (275%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 660 Ti is quite a bit (about 288%) better at texture filtering than the GeForce 9600 GSO 384MB. (explain)

GeForce GTX 660 Ti		102480 Mtexels/sec
GeForce 9600 GSO 384MB		26400 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 76080 (288%)

Pixel Rate

If using a high screen resolution is important to you, then the GeForce GTX 660 Ti is a better choice, and very much so. (explain)

GeForce GTX 660 Ti		21960 Mpixels/sec
GeForce 9600 GSO 384MB		6600 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 15360 (233%)

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 information (in units of MB per second) that can be moved across the external memory interface in one second. It is calculated by multiplying the interface width by its memory clock speed. If it uses DDR RAM, it must be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the card's memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, HDR and high resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels that the graphics chip could possibly write to its local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is calculated by multiplying the amount of Render Output Units by the clock speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - aka Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel output 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 ability to get to the maximum fill rate.