GeForce 810M vs GeForce 9600 GSO 1.5GB

Intro

Compare all that to the GeForce 9600 GSO 1.5GB, which has a core clock speed of 550 MHz and a GDDR3 memory speed of 800 MHz. It also makes use of a 192-bit bus, and makes use of a 65 nm design. It is comprised of 96 SPUs, 48 TAUs, and 12 Raster Operation Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce 810M		15 Watts
GeForce 9600 GSO 1.5GB		84 Watts
	Difference: 69 Watts (460%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the GeForce 9600 GSO 1.5GB is 167% quicker than the GeForce 810M in general, because of its higher bandwidth. (explain)

GeForce 9600 GSO 1.5GB		38400 MB/sec
GeForce 810M		14400 MB/sec
	Difference: 24000 (167%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce 9600 GSO 1.5GB will be a lot (more or less 347%) better at anisotropic filtering than the GeForce 810M. (explain)

GeForce 9600 GSO 1.5GB		26400 Mtexels/sec
GeForce 810M		5904 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 20496 (347%)

Pixel Rate

The GeForce 9600 GSO 1.5GB is much (about 124%) better at anti-aliasing than the GeForce 810M, and also capable of handling higher screen resolutions more effectively. (explain)

GeForce 9600 GSO 1.5GB		6600 Mpixels/sec
GeForce 810M		2952 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 3648 (124%)

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 largest amount of information (in units of MB per second) that can be moved past the external memory interface within a second. It's worked out by multiplying the card's interface width by its memory speed. If it uses DDR type RAM, it must be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the memory bandwidth, 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 amount of texture map elements (texels) that can be applied per second. This number is worked out by multiplying the total amount of texture units of the card by the core speed of the chip. The better the texel rate, the better the graphics card will be at handling 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 the graphics card could possibly write to the local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is worked out by multiplying the number of Raster Operations Pipelines by the clock speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also sometimes called Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel fill rate is also dependant 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.