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GeForce 830M vs GeForce 9600 GSO 512MB

Intro

The GeForce 830M uses a 28 nm design. nVidia has clocked the core frequency at 1029 MHz. The DDR3 memory works at a speed of 900 MHz on this particular card. It features 256 SPUs as well as 16 Texture Address Units and 8 Rasterization Operator Units.

Compare all of that to the GeForce 9600 GSO 512MB, which has GPU clock speed of 650 MHz, and 512 MB of GDDR3 memory set to run at 900 MHz through a 256-bit bus. It also is comprised of 96 SPUs, 48 Texture Address Units, and 16 Raster Operation Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce 830M 25 Watts
GeForce 9600 GSO 512MB 90 Watts
Difference: 65 Watts (260%)

Memory Bandwidth

The GeForce 9600 GSO 512MB should theoretically be quite a bit faster than the GeForce 830M in general. (explain)

GeForce 9600 GSO 512MB 57600 MB/sec
GeForce 830M 14400 MB/sec
Difference: 43200 (300%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce 9600 GSO 512MB should be a lot (approximately 90%) better at anisotropic filtering than the GeForce 830M. (explain)

GeForce 9600 GSO 512MB 31200 Mtexels/sec
GeForce 830M 16464 Mtexels/sec
Difference: 14736 (90%)

Pixel Rate

If running with a high resolution is important to you, then the GeForce 9600 GSO 512MB is the winner, by a large margin. (explain)

GeForce 9600 GSO 512MB 10400 Mpixels/sec
GeForce 830M 8232 Mpixels/sec
Difference: 2168 (26%)

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

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Specifications

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Model GeForce 830M GeForce 9600 GSO 512MB
Manufacturer nVidia nVidia
Year March 12 2014 October 2008
Code Name GM108 G94a/b
Memory 2048 MB 512 MB
Core Speed 1029 MHz 650 MHz
Memory Speed 1800 MHz 1800 MHz
Power (Max TDP) 25 watts 90 watts
Bandwidth 14400 MB/sec 57600 MB/sec
Texel Rate 16464 Mtexels/sec 31200 Mtexels/sec
Pixel Rate 8232 Mpixels/sec 10400 Mpixels/sec
Unified Shaders 256 96
Texture Mapping Units 16 48
Render Output Units 8 16
Bus Type DDR3 GDDR3
Bus Width 64-bit 256-bit
Fab Process 28 nm 65/55 nm
Transistors (Unknown) million 505 million
Bus PCIe 3.0 x16 PCIe x16 2.0
DirectX Version DirectX 12 DirectX 10
OpenGL Version OpenGL 4.5 OpenGL 3.0

Memory Bandwidth: Memory bandwidth is the largest amount of information (in units of megabytes per second) that can be moved over the external memory interface in a second. It is calculated by multiplying the card's interface width by its memory clock speed. If the card has DDR memory, it must be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, High Dynamic Range and higher screen resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels the video card can possibly record to the local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is calculated by multiplying the number of Raster Operations Pipelines by the the core clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - sometimes also referred to as Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel rate also depends on quite a few other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the maximum fill rate.

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GeForce 830M

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GeForce 9600 GSO 512MB

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