GeForce 9600 GT 512MB vs GeForce GTX Titan Black

Intro

Compare those specifications to the GeForce GTX Titan Black, which has core clock speeds of 889 MHz on the GPU, and 1750 MHz on the 6144 MB of GDDR5 memory. 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 GT 512MB		95 Watts
GeForce GTX Titan Black		250 Watts
	Difference: 155 Watts (163%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the GeForce GTX Titan Black will be 483% faster than the GeForce 9600 GT 512MB in general, because of its greater data rate. (explain)

GeForce GTX Titan Black		336000 MB/sec
GeForce 9600 GT 512MB		57600 MB/sec
	Difference: 278400 (483%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX Titan Black should be quite a bit (about 926%) faster with regards to texture filtering than the GeForce 9600 GT 512MB. (explain)

GeForce GTX Titan Black		213360 Mtexels/sec
GeForce 9600 GT 512MB		20800 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 192560 (926%)

Pixel Rate

If running with high levels of AA is important to you, then the GeForce GTX Titan Black is superior to the GeForce 9600 GT 512MB, by a large margin. (explain)

GeForce GTX Titan Black		42672 Mpixels/sec
GeForce 9600 GT 512MB		10400 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 32272 (310%)

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 max amount of information (measured in megabytes per second) that can be transferred across the external memory interface in one second. It is worked out by multiplying the bus width by its memory clock speed. If it uses DDR type RAM, it must be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses 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 number of texture map elements (texels) that are processed per second. This number is worked out by multiplying the total amount of texture units by the core speed of the chip. The better the texel rate, the better the card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels applied in one second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels that the graphics card can possibly write to its 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 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 reach the max fill rate.