GeForce 9600 GSO 512MB vs Nvidia Titan Xp

Intro

Compare those specifications to the Nvidia Titan Xp, which comes with core clock speeds of 1582 MHz on the GPU, and 1426 MHz on the 12288 MB of GDDR5X memory. It features 3840 SPUs along with 240 TAUs and 96 Rasterization Operator Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce 9600 GSO 512MB		90 Watts
Nvidia Titan Xp		250 Watts
	Difference: 160 Watts (178%)

Memory Bandwidth

Performance-wise, the Nvidia Titan Xp should theoretically be quite a bit better than the GeForce 9600 GSO 512MB overall. (explain)

Nvidia Titan Xp		560845 MB/sec
GeForce 9600 GSO 512MB		57600 MB/sec
	Difference: 503245 (874%)

Texel Rate

The Nvidia Titan Xp should be quite a bit (about 1117%) more effective at texture filtering than the GeForce 9600 GSO 512MB. (explain)

Nvidia Titan Xp		379680 Mtexels/sec
GeForce 9600 GSO 512MB		31200 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 348480 (1117%)

Pixel Rate

If running with a high screen resolution is important to you, then the Nvidia Titan Xp is the winner, and very much so. (explain)

Nvidia Titan Xp		151872 Mpixels/sec
GeForce 9600 GSO 512MB		10400 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 141472 (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: Memory bandwidth is the max amount of data (measured in megabytes per second) that can be moved across the external memory interface in one second. It's worked out by multiplying the card's bus width by its memory clock speed. If the card has DDR type RAM, it must be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the bandwidth is, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, HDR and high resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels that the graphics chip can possibly write to the local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is worked out by multiplying the amount of Raster Operations Pipelines by the clock speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - aka Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel output rate also depends on many other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the max fill rate.