GeForce 9600 GSO ASUS 512 vs GeForce GTX 960M

Intro

Compare all of that to the GeForce GTX 960M, which comes with clock speeds of 1096 MHz on the GPU, and 1000 MHz on the 2048 MB of GDDR5 RAM. It features 640 SPUs along with 40 TAUs and 16 Rasterization Operator Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GTX 960M		65 Watts
GeForce 9600 GSO ASUS 512		84 Watts
	Difference: 19 Watts (29%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the GeForce GTX 960M should be much faster than the GeForce 9600 GSO ASUS 512 in general. (explain)

GeForce GTX 960M		64000 MB/sec
GeForce 9600 GSO ASUS 512		16000 MB/sec
	Difference: 48000 (300%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 960M is quite a bit (more or less 66%) better at texture filtering than the GeForce 9600 GSO ASUS 512. (explain)

GeForce GTX 960M		43840 Mtexels/sec
GeForce 9600 GSO ASUS 512		26400 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 17440 (66%)

Pixel Rate

The GeForce GTX 960M is a lot (approximately 166%) more effective at AA than the GeForce 9600 GSO ASUS 512, and also able to handle higher screen resolutions better. (explain)

GeForce GTX 960M		17536 Mpixels/sec
GeForce 9600 GSO ASUS 512		6600 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 10936 (166%)

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 largest amount of information (in units of MB per second) that can be transferred over the external memory interface in one second. It is calculated by multiplying the card's bus width by its memory speed. If it uses DDR type memory, it must be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the card's memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, HDR and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum texture map elements (texels) that can be applied in one second. This figure is worked out by multiplying the total texture units of the card by the core clock speed of the chip. The better this number, the better the video card will be at texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels processed in a second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels the video card can possibly write to the local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is worked out by multiplying the amount of ROPs by the the core clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also sometimes called Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel output rate also depends on quite a few other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the max fill rate.