GeForce 9600 GSO 768MB vs GeForce GTX Titan

Intro

Compare that to the GeForce GTX Titan, which features GPU core speed of 837 MHz, and 6144 MB of GDDR5 memory running at 1502 MHz through a 384-bit bus. It also features 2688 SPUs, 224 Texture Address Units, and 48 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce 9600 GSO 768MB		84 Watts
GeForce GTX Titan		250 Watts
	Difference: 166 Watts (198%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the GeForce GTX Titan should be much faster than the GeForce 9600 GSO 768MB overall. (explain)

GeForce GTX Titan		288384 MB/sec
GeForce 9600 GSO 768MB		38400 MB/sec
	Difference: 249984 (651%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX Titan should be quite a bit (about 610%) better at texture filtering than the GeForce 9600 GSO 768MB. (explain)

GeForce GTX Titan		187488 Mtexels/sec
GeForce 9600 GSO 768MB		26400 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 161088 (610%)

Pixel Rate

If running with a high resolution is important to you, then the GeForce GTX Titan is superior to the GeForce 9600 GSO 768MB, by a large margin. (explain)

GeForce GTX Titan		40176 Mpixels/sec
GeForce 9600 GSO 768MB		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: Bandwidth is the maximum amount of data (in units of megabytes per second) that can be transferred over the external memory interface within a second. It is calculated by multiplying the card's interface width by the speed of its memory. If the card has DDR RAM, it should be multiplied by 2 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 high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum number of texture map elements (texels) that can be processed in one second. This is worked out 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 card will be at texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels per second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels that the graphics card could possibly record to the local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is calculated by multiplying the number of Render Output Units by the clock speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - aka 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 memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the max fill rate.