GeForce 9600 GSO ASUS 512 vs Nvidia Titan Xp

Intro

Compare those specs to the Nvidia Titan Xp, which uses a 16 nm design. nVidia has clocked the core speed at 1582 MHz. The GDDR5X memory is set to run at a speed of 1426 MHz on this particular card. It features 3840 SPUs along with 240 TAUs and 96 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce 9600 GSO ASUS 512		84 Watts
Nvidia Titan Xp		250 Watts
	Difference: 166 Watts (198%)

Memory Bandwidth

In theory, the Nvidia Titan Xp should perform quite a bit faster than the GeForce 9600 GSO ASUS 512 in general. (explain)

Nvidia Titan Xp		560845 MB/sec
GeForce 9600 GSO ASUS 512		16000 MB/sec
	Difference: 544845 (3405%)

Texel Rate

The Nvidia Titan Xp will be much (more or less 1338%) more effective at AF than the GeForce 9600 GSO ASUS 512. (explain)

Nvidia Titan Xp		379680 Mtexels/sec
GeForce 9600 GSO ASUS 512		26400 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 353280 (1338%)

Pixel Rate

If using a high resolution is important to you, then the Nvidia Titan Xp is a better choice, and very much so. (explain)

Nvidia Titan Xp		151872 Mpixels/sec
GeForce 9600 GSO ASUS 512		6600 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 145272 (2201%)

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: Memory bandwidth is the largest amount of data (in units of MB per second) that can be transported over the external memory interface in a second. The number is calculated by multiplying the interface width by its memory clock speed. In the case of DDR type RAM, it must be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the card's memory bandwidth, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, 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 worked out by multiplying the total texture units of the card 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 applied per second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels that the graphics chip could possibly record to the local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is worked out by multiplying the number of colour ROPs by the the core speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - aka Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel output rate is also dependant on quite a few other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the max fill rate.