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GeForce 9600 GSO 512MB vs GeForce GTX 870M

Intro

The GeForce 9600 GSO 512MB uses a 65/55 nm design. nVidia has clocked the core frequency at 650 MHz. The GDDR3 memory works at a speed of 900 MHz on this particular model. It features 96 SPUs as well as 48 Texture Address Units and 16 ROPs.

Compare all that to the GeForce GTX 870M, which features GPU core speed of 941 MHz, and 3072 MB of GDDR5 RAM set to run at 1000 MHz through a 192-bit bus. It also is made up of 1344 SPUs, 112 Texture Address Units, and 24 Raster Operation Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce 9600 GSO 512MB 90 Watts
GeForce GTX 870M 110 Watts
Difference: 20 Watts (22%)

Memory Bandwidth

As far as performance goes, the GeForce GTX 870M should theoretically be a lot superior to the GeForce 9600 GSO 512MB in general. (explain)

GeForce GTX 870M 96000 MB/sec
GeForce 9600 GSO 512MB 57600 MB/sec
Difference: 38400 (67%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 870M should be much (approximately 238%) better at anisotropic filtering than the GeForce 9600 GSO 512MB. (explain)

GeForce GTX 870M 105392 Mtexels/sec
GeForce 9600 GSO 512MB 31200 Mtexels/sec
Difference: 74192 (238%)

Pixel Rate

If running with a high resolution is important to you, then the GeForce GTX 870M is a better choice, by far. (explain)

GeForce GTX 870M 22584 Mpixels/sec
GeForce 9600 GSO 512MB 10400 Mpixels/sec
Difference: 12184 (117%)

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 9600 GSO 512MB GeForce GTX 870M
Manufacturer nVidia nVidia
Year October 2008 March 12 2014
Code Name G94a/b GK104
Memory 512 MB 3072 MB
Core Speed 650 MHz 941 MHz
Memory Speed 1800 MHz 4000 MHz
Power (Max TDP) 90 watts 110 watts
Bandwidth 57600 MB/sec 96000 MB/sec
Texel Rate 31200 Mtexels/sec 105392 Mtexels/sec
Pixel Rate 10400 Mpixels/sec 22584 Mpixels/sec
Unified Shaders 96 1344
Texture Mapping Units 48 112
Render Output Units 16 24
Bus Type GDDR3 GDDR5
Bus Width 256-bit 192-bit
Fab Process 65/55 nm 28 nm
Transistors 505 million (Unknown) million
Bus PCIe x16 2.0 PCIe 3.0 x16
DirectX Version DirectX 10 DirectX 12
OpenGL Version OpenGL 3.0 OpenGL 4.5

Memory Bandwidth: Bandwidth is the maximum amount of data (measured in megabytes per second) that can be transferred over the external memory interface within a second. It's calculated by multiplying the bus width by its memory speed. If the card has DDR type RAM, it should be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses 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 higher screen resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels the graphics card could possibly write to its local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is calculated by multiplying the amount of Raster Operations Pipelines by the the card's clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also called Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel output rate also depends on many other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the max fill rate.

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