GeForce 9500 GT DDR2 vs GeForce GTX 1050 Ti

Intro

Compare all that to the GeForce GTX 1050 Ti, which uses a 14 nm design. nVidia has clocked the core frequency at 1290 MHz. The GDDR5 RAM works at a frequency of 1750 MHz on this specific card. It features 768 SPUs as well as 48 Texture Address Units and 32 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce 9500 GT DDR2		50 Watts
GeForce GTX 1050 Ti		75 Watts
	Difference: 25 Watts (50%)

Memory Bandwidth

In theory, the GeForce GTX 1050 Ti should be much faster than the GeForce 9500 GT DDR2 in general. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1050 Ti		114688 MB/sec
GeForce 9500 GT DDR2		16000 MB/sec
	Difference: 98688 (617%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 1050 Ti is much (about 604%) faster with regards to AF than the GeForce 9500 GT DDR2. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1050 Ti		61920 Mtexels/sec
GeForce 9500 GT DDR2		8800 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 53120 (604%)

Pixel Rate

If running with lots of anti-aliasing is important to you, then the GeForce GTX 1050 Ti is a better choice, and very much so. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1050 Ti		41280 Mpixels/sec
GeForce 9500 GT DDR2		4400 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 36880 (838%)

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 maximum amount of data (counted in megabytes per second) that can be transported over the external memory interface in one second. The number is calculated by multiplying the bus width by its memory clock speed. If the card has DDR RAM, it must be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the memory bandwidth, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, HDR and high resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels the graphics card could possibly write to the local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is calculated by multiplying the amount of colour ROPs by the the core speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also sometimes called Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel rate also depends on lots of other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the max fill rate.