GeForce 9500 GT 1GB GDDR3 vs GeForce GTX 860M

Intro

Compare those specs to the GeForce GTX 860M, which uses a 28 nm design. nVidia has clocked the core frequency at 797 MHz. The GDDR5 RAM works at a speed of 1000 MHz on this card. It features 1152 SPUs along with 96 TAUs and 16 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GTX 860M		45 Watts
GeForce 9500 GT 1GB GDDR3		50 Watts
	Difference: 5 Watts (11%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the GeForce GTX 860M should be much faster than the GeForce 9500 GT 1GB GDDR3 in general. (explain)

GeForce GTX 860M		64000 MB/sec
GeForce 9500 GT 1GB GDDR3		25600 MB/sec
	Difference: 38400 (150%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 860M should be much (more or less 769%) faster with regards to anisotropic filtering than the GeForce 9500 GT 1GB GDDR3. (explain)

GeForce GTX 860M		76512 Mtexels/sec
GeForce 9500 GT 1GB GDDR3		8800 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 67712 (769%)

Pixel Rate

The GeForce GTX 860M will be quite a bit (about 190%) better at AA than the GeForce 9500 GT 1GB GDDR3, and also will be capable of handling higher screen resolutions better. (explain)

GeForce GTX 860M		12752 Mpixels/sec
GeForce 9500 GT 1GB GDDR3		4400 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 8352 (190%)

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 data (measured in MB per second) that can be transported across the external memory interface in one second. The number is calculated by multiplying the interface width by the speed of its memory. If it uses DDR RAM, it should be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the 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 amount of texture map elements (texels) that can be processed per second. This is worked out by multiplying the total texture units by the core clock speed of the chip. The higher the texel rate, the better the card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels per second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels the graphics card could possibly record to its local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure 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 outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel output rate is also dependant on quite a few other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the max fill rate.