GeForce 9600 GSO 768MB vs GeForce GTX 1070

Intro

Compare that to the GeForce GTX 1070, which has core speeds of 1506 MHz on the GPU, and 2000 MHz on the 8192 MB of GDDR5 memory. It features 1920 SPUs along with 120 Texture Address Units and 64 Rasterization Operator Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce 9600 GSO 768MB		84 Watts
GeForce GTX 1070		150 Watts
	Difference: 66 Watts (79%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically, the GeForce GTX 1070 should be much faster than the GeForce 9600 GSO 768MB overall. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1070		262144 MB/sec
GeForce 9600 GSO 768MB		38400 MB/sec
	Difference: 223744 (583%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 1070 should be a lot (about 585%) faster with regards to anisotropic filtering than the GeForce 9600 GSO 768MB. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1070		180720 Mtexels/sec
GeForce 9600 GSO 768MB		26400 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 154320 (585%)

Pixel Rate

The GeForce GTX 1070 should be quite a bit (about 1360%) better at AA than the GeForce 9600 GSO 768MB, and also should be capable of handling higher resolutions more effectively. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1070		96384 Mpixels/sec
GeForce 9600 GSO 768MB		6600 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 89784 (1360%)

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 max amount of information (counted in megabytes per second) that can be moved over the external memory interface within a second. It's calculated by multiplying the card's interface width by the speed of its memory. If it uses DDR memory, it should be multiplied by 2 once again. If 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, High Dynamic Range and higher screen resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum number of texture map elements (texels) that are processed in one second. This figure is worked out by multiplying the total number of texture units by the core clock speed of the chip. The better this number, the better the video card will be at texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels in one second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels the video card could possibly write to its local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is worked out by multiplying the number of Render Output Units by the the core clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - aka Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel rate also depends on quite a few other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the max fill rate.