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GeForce 9600 GSO ASUS 512 vs GeForce GT 1030

Intro

The GeForce 9600 GSO ASUS 512 comes with a GPU core speed of 550 MHz, and the 512 MB of DDR2 RAM runs at 500 MHz through a 128-bit bus. It also is made up of 96 Stream Processors, 48 TAUs, and 12 ROPs.

Compare those specs to the GeForce GT 1030, which makes use of a 16 nm design. nVidia has clocked the core speed at 1265 MHz. The GDDR5 RAM is set to run at a speed of 1502 MHz on this specific card. It features 384 SPUs along with 32 Texture Address Units and 16 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GT 1030 30 Watts
GeForce 9600 GSO ASUS 512 84 Watts
Difference: 54 Watts (180%)

Memory Bandwidth

In theory, the GeForce GT 1030 should perform much faster than the GeForce 9600 GSO ASUS 512 in general. (explain)

GeForce GT 1030 49152 MB/sec
GeForce 9600 GSO ASUS 512 16000 MB/sec
Difference: 33152 (207%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GT 1030 will be quite a bit (approximately 53%) better at texture filtering than the GeForce 9600 GSO ASUS 512. (explain)

GeForce GT 1030 40480 Mtexels/sec
GeForce 9600 GSO ASUS 512 26400 Mtexels/sec
Difference: 14080 (53%)

Pixel Rate

If running with high levels of AA is important to you, then the GeForce GT 1030 is superior to the GeForce 9600 GSO ASUS 512, by a large margin. (explain)

GeForce GT 1030 20240 Mpixels/sec
GeForce 9600 GSO ASUS 512 6600 Mpixels/sec
Difference: 13640 (207%)

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

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Specifications

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Model GeForce 9600 GSO ASUS 512 GeForce GT 1030
Manufacturer nVidia nVidia
Year September 2008 May 2017
Code Name G92 GP108-300
Memory 512 MB 2048 MB
Core Speed 550 MHz 1265 MHz
Memory Speed 1000 MHz 6008 MHz
Power (Max TDP) 84 watts 30 watts
Bandwidth 16000 MB/sec 49152 MB/sec
Texel Rate 26400 Mtexels/sec 40480 Mtexels/sec
Pixel Rate 6600 Mpixels/sec 20240 Mpixels/sec
Unified Shaders 96 384
Texture Mapping Units 48 32
Render Output Units 12 16
Bus Type DDR2 GDDR5
Bus Width 128-bit 64-bit
Fab Process 65 nm 16 nm
Transistors 754 million 3300 million
Bus PCIe x16 2.0 PCIe 3.0 x16
DirectX Version DirectX 10 DirectX 12.0
OpenGL Version OpenGL 3.0 OpenGL 4.5

Memory Bandwidth: Bandwidth is the maximum amount of information (measured in megabytes per second) that can be moved over the external memory interface in one second. The number is calculated by multiplying the card's interface width by the speed of its memory. In the case of DDR RAM, it must be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the card's memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, HDR and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum texture map elements (texels) that can be processed in one second. This number is calculated by multiplying the total amount of texture units by the core speed of the chip. The better the texel rate, the better the graphics 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 maximum number of pixels the video card could possibly write to its local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is worked out by multiplying the amount of colour ROPs by the the card's clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - sometimes also referred to as 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 of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the max fill rate.

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