GeForce 9600 GSO 1.5GB vs GeForce GTX Titan

Intro

Compare those specs to the GeForce GTX Titan, which uses a 28 nm design. nVidia has clocked the core speed at 837 MHz. The GDDR5 memory runs at a frequency of 1502 MHz on this particular card. It features 2688 SPUs as well as 224 Texture Address Units and 48 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce 9600 GSO 1.5GB		84 Watts
GeForce GTX Titan		250 Watts
	Difference: 166 Watts (198%)

Memory Bandwidth

Performance-wise, the GeForce GTX Titan should in theory be a lot superior to the GeForce 9600 GSO 1.5GB overall. (explain)

GeForce GTX Titan		288384 MB/sec
GeForce 9600 GSO 1.5GB		38400 MB/sec
	Difference: 249984 (651%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX Titan is much (more or less 610%) better at texture filtering than the GeForce 9600 GSO 1.5GB. (explain)

GeForce GTX Titan		187488 Mtexels/sec
GeForce 9600 GSO 1.5GB		26400 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 161088 (610%)

Pixel Rate

If running with high levels of AA is important to you, then the GeForce GTX Titan is superior to the GeForce 9600 GSO 1.5GB, and very much so. (explain)

GeForce GTX Titan		40176 Mpixels/sec
GeForce 9600 GSO 1.5GB		6600 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 33576 (509%)

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 (counted in MB 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 its memory clock speed. If the card has DDR RAM, it should be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the card's memory bandwidth, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, HDR and high resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels the graphics card can possibly record to the local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is calculated by multiplying the number of Render Output Units by the clock speed of the card. 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 lots of other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the maximum fill rate.