GeForce 9600 GSO ASUS 512 vs GeForce GTX 750 Ti

Intro

Compare all of that to the GeForce GTX 750 Ti, which has core clock speeds of 1020 MHz on the GPU, and 1350 MHz on the 2048 MB of GDDR5 RAM. It features 640 SPUs along with 40 Texture Address Units and 16 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GTX 750 Ti		60 Watts
GeForce 9600 GSO ASUS 512		84 Watts
	Difference: 24 Watts (40%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the GeForce GTX 750 Ti will be 440% faster than the GeForce 9600 GSO ASUS 512 in general, due to its higher data rate. (explain)

GeForce GTX 750 Ti		86400 MB/sec
GeForce 9600 GSO ASUS 512		16000 MB/sec
	Difference: 70400 (440%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 750 Ti should be a lot (more or less 55%) faster with regards to anisotropic filtering than the GeForce 9600 GSO ASUS 512. (explain)

GeForce GTX 750 Ti		40800 Mtexels/sec
GeForce 9600 GSO ASUS 512		26400 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 14400 (55%)

Pixel Rate

The GeForce GTX 750 Ti will be quite a bit (approximately 147%) more effective at anti-aliasing than the GeForce 9600 GSO ASUS 512, and should be capable of handling higher screen resolutions without losing too much performance. (explain)

GeForce GTX 750 Ti		16320 Mpixels/sec
GeForce 9600 GSO ASUS 512		6600 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 9720 (147%)

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 max amount of data (measured in MB per second) that can be transported past the external memory interface in one second. It is calculated by multiplying the interface width by its memory clock speed. In the case of DDR memory, it must be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the card's 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 texture map elements (texels) that are applied in one second. This is calculated by multiplying the total number of texture units by the core speed of the chip. The higher this number, the better the video card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels in one 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 number of colour ROPs by the the card's clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also sometimes called Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel fill rate also depends on many other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the max fill rate.