GeForce 9600 GSO 512MB vs GeForce GTX 650 Ti 2GB

Intro

Compare all of that to the GeForce GTX 650 Ti 2GB, which uses a 28 nm design. nVidia has set the core frequency at 928 MHz. The GDDR5 RAM works at a frequency of 1350 MHz on this particular model. It features 768 SPUs as well as 64 TAUs and 16 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce 9600 GSO 512MB		90 Watts
GeForce GTX 650 Ti 2GB		110 Watts
	Difference: 20 Watts (22%)

Memory Bandwidth

Performance-wise, the GeForce GTX 650 Ti 2GB should in theory be much better than the GeForce 9600 GSO 512MB overall. (explain)

GeForce GTX 650 Ti 2GB		86400 MB/sec
GeForce 9600 GSO 512MB		57600 MB/sec
	Difference: 28800 (50%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 650 Ti 2GB will be much (more or less 90%) more effective at texture filtering than the GeForce 9600 GSO 512MB. (explain)

GeForce GTX 650 Ti 2GB		59392 Mtexels/sec
GeForce 9600 GSO 512MB		31200 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 28192 (90%)

Pixel Rate

If running with high levels of AA is important to you, then the GeForce GTX 650 Ti 2GB is a better choice, and very much so. (explain)

GeForce GTX 650 Ti 2GB		14848 Mpixels/sec
GeForce 9600 GSO 512MB		10400 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 4448 (43%)

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 data (in units of MB per second) that can be transferred across the external memory interface in one second. It is worked out by multiplying the card's interface width by its memory clock speed. If it uses DDR type RAM, it must be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better 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 texture map elements (texels) that are processed per second. This figure is calculated by multiplying the total number of texture units by the core clock speed of the chip. The better this number, the better the card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels processed in a second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels the graphics card can possibly write to its local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is calculated by multiplying the number of Raster Operations Pipelines by the the card's clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also called Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel output rate also depends on quite a few other factors, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the max fill rate.