GeForce 9600 GSO 384MB vs Nvidia Titan Xp

Intro

Compare that to the Nvidia Titan Xp, which has a GPU core clock speed of 1582 MHz, and 12288 MB of GDDR5X RAM set to run at 1426 MHz through a 384-bit bus. It also is comprised of 3840 Stream Processors, 240 Texture Address Units, and 96 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce 9600 GSO 384MB		84 Watts
Nvidia Titan Xp		250 Watts
	Difference: 166 Watts (198%)

Memory Bandwidth

In theory, the Nvidia Titan Xp will be 1361% quicker than the GeForce 9600 GSO 384MB overall, because of its higher data rate. (explain)

Nvidia Titan Xp		560845 MB/sec
GeForce 9600 GSO 384MB		38400 MB/sec
	Difference: 522445 (1361%)

Texel Rate

The Nvidia Titan Xp should be a lot (approximately 1338%) better at AF than the GeForce 9600 GSO 384MB. (explain)

Nvidia Titan Xp		379680 Mtexels/sec
GeForce 9600 GSO 384MB		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 384MB		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: Bandwidth is the largest amount of data (counted in MB per second) that can be transferred over the external memory interface in a second. It's calculated by multiplying the card's bus width by its memory clock speed. In the case of DDR memory, the result should be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the bandwidth is, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, HDR and high resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels that the graphics card can possibly record to its local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is worked out by multiplying the number of colour ROPs by the clock speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also called Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel fill rate is also dependant on lots of other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the maximum fill rate.