GeForce 9600 GSO 768MB vs Geforce GTX 1080 Ti

Intro

Compare that to the Geforce GTX 1080 Ti, which comes with core clock speeds of 1480 MHz on the GPU, and 1376 MHz on the 11264 MB of GDDR5X memory. It features 3584 SPUs along with 224 Texture Address Units and 88 Rasterization Operator 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

Theoretically speaking, the Geforce GTX 1080 Ti should be 1191% quicker than the GeForce 9600 GSO 768MB in general, because of its greater bandwidth. (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%) more effective at AF 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 is quite a bit (more or less 1873%) faster with regards to full screen anti-aliasing than the GeForce 9600 GSO 768MB, and also able to handle higher resolutions without losing too much performance. (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 max amount of information (measured in megabytes per second) that can be transferred past the external memory interface within a second. The number is worked out by multiplying the bus width by the speed of its memory. If it uses DDR RAM, it must be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher 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 per second. This is worked out by multiplying the total texture units of the card by the core clock speed of the chip. The better the texel rate, the better the graphics 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 most pixels that the graphics chip can possibly record to the local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is worked out by multiplying the amount of colour ROPs by the the core speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also called 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, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the max fill rate.