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GeForce 9600 GSO 768MB vs GeForce GTX 780 Ti

Intro

The GeForce 9600 GSO 768MB comes with a GPU core clock speed of 550 MHz, and the 768 MB of GDDR3 memory is set to run at 800 MHz through a 192-bit bus. It also features 96 SPUs, 48 TAUs, and 12 ROPs.

Compare that to the GeForce GTX 780 Ti, which uses a 28 nm design. nVidia has set the core frequency at 875 MHz. The GDDR5 RAM is set to run at a speed of 1750 MHz on this specific model. It features 2880 SPUs as well as 240 Texture Address Units and 48 Rasterization Operator Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce 9600 GSO 768MB 84 Watts
GeForce GTX 780 Ti 250 Watts
Difference: 166 Watts (198%)

Memory Bandwidth

In theory, the GeForce GTX 780 Ti will be 775% quicker than the GeForce 9600 GSO 768MB in general, due to its higher data rate. (explain)

GeForce GTX 780 Ti 336000 MB/sec
GeForce 9600 GSO 768MB 38400 MB/sec
Difference: 297600 (775%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 780 Ti is quite a bit (approximately 695%) better at anisotropic filtering than the GeForce 9600 GSO 768MB. (explain)

GeForce GTX 780 Ti 210000 Mtexels/sec
GeForce 9600 GSO 768MB 26400 Mtexels/sec
Difference: 183600 (695%)

Pixel Rate

If using lots of anti-aliasing is important to you, then the GeForce GTX 780 Ti is superior to the GeForce 9600 GSO 768MB, by far. (explain)

GeForce GTX 780 Ti 42000 Mpixels/sec
GeForce 9600 GSO 768MB 6600 Mpixels/sec
Difference: 35400 (536%)

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.

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Specifications

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Model GeForce 9600 GSO 768MB GeForce GTX 780 Ti
Manufacturer nVidia nVidia
Year May 2008 November 2013
Code Name G92 GK110
Memory 768 MB 3072 MB
Core Speed 550 MHz 875 MHz
Memory Speed 1600 MHz 7000 MHz
Power (Max TDP) 84 watts 250 watts
Bandwidth 38400 MB/sec 336000 MB/sec
Texel Rate 26400 Mtexels/sec 210000 Mtexels/sec
Pixel Rate 6600 Mpixels/sec 42000 Mpixels/sec
Unified Shaders 96 2880
Texture Mapping Units 48 240
Render Output Units 12 48
Bus Type GDDR3 GDDR5
Bus Width 192-bit 384-bit
Fab Process 65 nm 28 nm
Transistors 754 million 7080 million
Bus PCIe x16 2.0 PCIe 3.0 x16
DirectX Version DirectX 10 DirectX 11.0
OpenGL Version OpenGL 3.0 OpenGL 4.4

Memory Bandwidth: Memory bandwidth is the max amount of data (in units of megabytes per second) that can be moved past the external memory interface in a second. It is worked out by multiplying the card's bus width by the speed of its memory. If it uses DDR RAM, the result should be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the bandwidth is, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, HDR and higher screen resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum amount of texture map elements (texels) that can be processed per second. This number is worked out by multiplying the total 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 in one second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels that the graphics chip can possibly record to its local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is calculated by multiplying the amount of colour ROPs by the the card's clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - sometimes also referred to as Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel fill rate also depends on lots of other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the max fill rate.

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GeForce 9600 GSO 768MB

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