GeForce 9500 GT DDR2 vs Nvidia Titan Xp

Intro

Compare those specifications to the Nvidia Titan Xp, which makes use of a 16 nm design. nVidia has set the core frequency at 1582 MHz. The GDDR5X RAM works at a speed of 1426 MHz on this card. It features 3840 SPUs as well as 240 TAUs and 96 Rasterization Operator Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce 9500 GT DDR2		50 Watts
Nvidia Titan Xp		250 Watts
	Difference: 200 Watts (400%)

Memory Bandwidth

Performance-wise, the Nvidia Titan Xp should theoretically be a lot superior to the GeForce 9500 GT DDR2 in general. (explain)

Nvidia Titan Xp		560845 MB/sec
GeForce 9500 GT DDR2		16000 MB/sec
	Difference: 544845 (3405%)

Texel Rate

The Nvidia Titan Xp should be quite a bit (about 4215%) faster with regards to texture filtering than the GeForce 9500 GT DDR2. (explain)

Nvidia Titan Xp		379680 Mtexels/sec
GeForce 9500 GT DDR2		8800 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 370880 (4215%)

Pixel Rate

If running with a high resolution is important to you, then the Nvidia Titan Xp is superior to the GeForce 9500 GT DDR2, by a large margin. (explain)

Nvidia Titan Xp		151872 Mpixels/sec
GeForce 9500 GT DDR2		4400 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 147472 (3352%)

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 maximum amount of data (in units of MB per second) that can be transported over the external memory interface in a second. It's calculated by multiplying the card's interface width by the speed of its memory. If it uses DDR memory, it must be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the bandwidth is, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, High Dynamic Range and higher screen resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels the video card could possibly write to the local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is calculated by multiplying the number of ROPs by the the core clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - aka Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel fill rate also depends on quite a few other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the max fill rate.