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GeForce 9600 GSO ASUS 512 vs GeForce GTX Titan Black

Intro

The GeForce 9600 GSO ASUS 512 features a core clock frequency of 550 MHz and a DDR2 memory frequency of 500 MHz. It also uses a 128-bit memory bus, and uses a 65 nm design. It is comprised of 96 SPUs, 48 Texture Address Units, and 12 Raster Operation Units.

Compare all that to the GeForce GTX Titan Black, which comes with a clock frequency of 889 MHz and a GDDR5 memory speed of 1750 MHz. It also uses a 384-bit bus, and uses a 28 nm design. It features 2880 SPUs, 240 Texture Address Units, and 48 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce 9600 GSO ASUS 512 84 Watts
GeForce GTX Titan Black 250 Watts
Difference: 166 Watts (198%)

Memory Bandwidth

The GeForce GTX Titan Black, in theory, should perform much faster than the GeForce 9600 GSO ASUS 512 in general. (explain)

GeForce GTX Titan Black 336000 MB/sec
GeForce 9600 GSO ASUS 512 16000 MB/sec
Difference: 320000 (2000%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX Titan Black should be a lot (approximately 708%) faster with regards to texture filtering than the GeForce 9600 GSO ASUS 512. (explain)

GeForce GTX Titan Black 213360 Mtexels/sec
GeForce 9600 GSO ASUS 512 26400 Mtexels/sec
Difference: 186960 (708%)

Pixel Rate

The GeForce GTX Titan Black is much (approximately 547%) more effective at AA than the GeForce 9600 GSO ASUS 512, and will be able to handle higher screen resolutions better. (explain)

GeForce GTX Titan Black 42672 Mpixels/sec
GeForce 9600 GSO ASUS 512 6600 Mpixels/sec
Difference: 36072 (547%)

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 ASUS 512 GeForce GTX Titan Black
Manufacturer nVidia nVidia
Year September 2008 February 2014
Code Name G92 GK110-430
Memory 512 MB 6144 MB
Core Speed 550 MHz 889 MHz
Memory Speed 1000 MHz 7000 MHz
Power (Max TDP) 84 watts 250 watts
Bandwidth 16000 MB/sec 336000 MB/sec
Texel Rate 26400 Mtexels/sec 213360 Mtexels/sec
Pixel Rate 6600 Mpixels/sec 42672 Mpixels/sec
Unified Shaders 96 2880
Texture Mapping Units 48 240
Render Output Units 12 48
Bus Type DDR2 GDDR5
Bus Width 128-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: Bandwidth is the maximum amount of data (in units of MB per second) that can be transported across the external memory interface in one second. The number is calculated by multiplying the card's interface width by its memory clock speed. In the case of DDR type RAM, it should be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the card's memory bandwidth, the faster 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 can be processed in one second. This number is calculated by multiplying the total texture units by the core clock speed of the chip. The better this number, the better the 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 most pixels that the graphics card can possibly write to its local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is calculated by multiplying the amount of Render Output Units by the the card's clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also sometimes called Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel output rate is also dependant on many other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the max fill rate.

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