GeForce 9600 GSO 768MB vs Geforce GTX 1080 Ti

Intro

Compare all of that to the Geforce GTX 1080 Ti, which has GPU clock speed of 1480 MHz, and 11264 MB of GDDR5X RAM running at 1376 MHz through a 352-bit bus. It also is made up of 3584 SPUs, 224 TAUs, and 88 Raster Operation Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce 9600 GSO 768MB		84 Watts
Geforce GTX 1080 Ti		250 Watts
	Difference: 166 Watts (198%)

Memory Bandwidth

As far as performance goes, the Geforce GTX 1080 Ti should in theory be much superior to the GeForce 9600 GSO 768MB overall. (explain)

Geforce GTX 1080 Ti		495616 MB/sec
GeForce 9600 GSO 768MB		38400 MB/sec
	Difference: 457216 (1191%)

Texel Rate

The Geforce GTX 1080 Ti is much (about 1156%) better at texture filtering than the GeForce 9600 GSO 768MB. (explain)

Geforce GTX 1080 Ti		331520 Mtexels/sec
GeForce 9600 GSO 768MB		26400 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 305120 (1156%)

Pixel Rate

The Geforce GTX 1080 Ti will be much (approximately 1873%) more effective at FSAA than the GeForce 9600 GSO 768MB, and also able to handle higher screen resolutions while still performing well. (explain)

Geforce GTX 1080 Ti		130240 Mpixels/sec
GeForce 9600 GSO 768MB		6600 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 123640 (1873%)

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 largest amount of information (counted in megabytes per second) that can be transferred over the external memory interface within a second. It is worked out by multiplying the interface width by its memory clock speed. If it uses DDR type memory, it must be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the memory bandwidth, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, HDR and higher screen resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum texture map elements (texels) that are processed in one second. This is worked out by multiplying the total amount of texture units 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 applied in one second.

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