GeForce 9600 GSO 1.5GB vs Nvidia Titan Xp

Intro

Compare those specifications to the Nvidia Titan Xp, which comes with clock speeds of 1582 MHz on the GPU, and 1426 MHz on the 12288 MB of GDDR5X RAM. It features 3840 SPUs as well as 240 Texture Address Units and 96 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce 9600 GSO 1.5GB		84 Watts
Nvidia Titan Xp		250 Watts
	Difference: 166 Watts (198%)

Memory Bandwidth

Performance-wise, the Nvidia Titan Xp should in theory be a lot better than the GeForce 9600 GSO 1.5GB in general. (explain)

Nvidia Titan Xp		560845 MB/sec
GeForce 9600 GSO 1.5GB		38400 MB/sec
	Difference: 522445 (1361%)

Texel Rate

The Nvidia Titan Xp is quite a bit (more or less 1338%) more effective at texture filtering than the GeForce 9600 GSO 1.5GB. (explain)

Nvidia Titan Xp		379680 Mtexels/sec
GeForce 9600 GSO 1.5GB		26400 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 353280 (1338%)

Pixel Rate

The Nvidia Titan Xp should be much (about 2201%) more effective at AA than the GeForce 9600 GSO 1.5GB, and also will be capable of handling higher screen resolutions without slowing down too much. (explain)

Nvidia Titan Xp		151872 Mpixels/sec
GeForce 9600 GSO 1.5GB		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 maximum amount of information (in units of MB per second) that can be transferred over the external memory interface within a second. It's worked out by multiplying the card's interface width by its memory speed. In the case of DDR type RAM, it must be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, HDR and higher screen resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels the graphics card can possibly record to its local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is calculated by multiplying the amount of ROPs by the clock speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also sometimes called Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel fill rate also depends on many other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the max fill rate.