GeForce 810M vs GeForce 9600 GT 512MB

Intro

Compare all that to the GeForce 9600 GT 512MB, which comes with core speeds of 650 MHz on the GPU, and 900 MHz on the 512 MB of GDDR3 memory. It features 64 SPUs as well as 32 Texture Address Units and 16 Rasterization Operator Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce 810M		15 Watts
GeForce 9600 GT 512MB		95 Watts
	Difference: 80 Watts (533%)

Memory Bandwidth

Performance-wise, the GeForce 9600 GT 512MB should theoretically be much superior to the GeForce 810M in general. (explain)

GeForce 9600 GT 512MB		57600 MB/sec
GeForce 810M		14400 MB/sec
	Difference: 43200 (300%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce 9600 GT 512MB should be a lot (approximately 252%) more effective at AF than the GeForce 810M. (explain)

GeForce 9600 GT 512MB		20800 Mtexels/sec
GeForce 810M		5904 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 14896 (252%)

Pixel Rate

If running with a high screen resolution is important to you, then the GeForce 9600 GT 512MB is the winner, by far. (explain)

GeForce 9600 GT 512MB		10400 Mpixels/sec
GeForce 810M		2952 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 7448 (252%)

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 (counted in MB per second) that can be transported across the external memory interface in a second. It is worked out by multiplying the bus width by its memory clock speed. In the case of DDR memory, it should be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the bandwidth is, 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 are processed in one second. This figure 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 texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels processed in one second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels that the graphics card could possibly record to its local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is worked out by multiplying the amount of Render Output Units by the the card's clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - sometimes also referred to as Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel rate also depends on lots of other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the maximum fill rate.