GeForce 9600 GSO 384MB vs GeForce GTX 650 Ti

Intro

Compare all that to the GeForce GTX 650 Ti, which uses a 28 nm design. nVidia has clocked the core frequency at 928 MHz. The GDDR5 memory is set to run at a speed of 1350 MHz on this particular model. It features 768 SPUs as well as 64 TAUs and 16 Rasterization Operator Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce 9600 GSO 384MB		84 Watts
GeForce GTX 650 Ti		110 Watts
	Difference: 26 Watts (31%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the GeForce GTX 650 Ti should be a lot faster than the GeForce 9600 GSO 384MB overall. (explain)

GeForce GTX 650 Ti		86400 MB/sec
GeForce 9600 GSO 384MB		38400 MB/sec
	Difference: 48000 (125%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 650 Ti should be quite a bit (more or less 125%) better at AF than the GeForce 9600 GSO 384MB. (explain)

GeForce GTX 650 Ti		59392 Mtexels/sec
GeForce 9600 GSO 384MB		26400 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 32992 (125%)

Pixel Rate

If running with lots of anti-aliasing is important to you, then the GeForce GTX 650 Ti is superior to the GeForce 9600 GSO 384MB, and very much so. (explain)

GeForce GTX 650 Ti		14848 Mpixels/sec
GeForce 9600 GSO 384MB		6600 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 8248 (125%)

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 maximum amount of data (measured in MB per second) that can be transferred past the external memory interface in one second. It is calculated by multiplying the bus width by the speed of its memory. If the card has DDR type RAM, it must be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the memory bandwidth, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, High Dynamic Range and higher screen resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum texture map elements (texels) that can be applied in one second. This figure is calculated by multiplying the total number of texture units by the core clock speed of the chip. The better the texel rate, the better the video 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 most pixels the video card can possibly record to the local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is worked out 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 drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel rate also depends on many other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the max fill rate.