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GeForce 9600 GSO 1.5GB vs GeForce GT 1030

Intro

The GeForce 9600 GSO 1.5GB has core speeds of 550 MHz on the GPU, and 800 MHz on the 1536 MB of GDDR3 memory. It features 96 SPUs as well as 48 TAUs and 12 Rasterization Operator Units.

Compare all that to the GeForce GT 1030, which makes use of a 16 nm design. nVidia has clocked the core frequency at 1265 MHz. The GDDR5 RAM works at a speed of 1502 MHz on this particular model. It features 384 SPUs as well as 32 TAUs and 16 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GT 1030 30 Watts
GeForce 9600 GSO 1.5GB 84 Watts
Difference: 54 Watts (180%)

Memory Bandwidth

In theory, the GeForce GT 1030 is 28% faster than the GeForce 9600 GSO 1.5GB in general, due to its higher bandwidth. (explain)

GeForce GT 1030 49152 MB/sec
GeForce 9600 GSO 1.5GB 38400 MB/sec
Difference: 10752 (28%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GT 1030 is a lot (about 53%) better at anisotropic filtering than the GeForce 9600 GSO 1.5GB. (explain)

GeForce GT 1030 40480 Mtexels/sec
GeForce 9600 GSO 1.5GB 26400 Mtexels/sec
Difference: 14080 (53%)

Pixel Rate

The GeForce GT 1030 should be a lot (about 207%) faster with regards to FSAA than the GeForce 9600 GSO 1.5GB, and also capable of handling higher resolutions without losing too much performance. (explain)

GeForce GT 1030 20240 Mpixels/sec
GeForce 9600 GSO 1.5GB 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 1.5GB GeForce GT 1030
Manufacturer nVidia nVidia
Year May 2008 May 2017
Code Name G92 GP108-300
Memory 1536 MB 2048 MB
Core Speed 550 MHz 1265 MHz
Memory Speed 1600 MHz 6008 MHz
Power (Max TDP) 84 watts 30 watts
Bandwidth 38400 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 GDDR3 GDDR5
Bus Width 192-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 max amount of data (counted in megabytes per second) that can be transferred over the external memory interface in a second. The number is calculated by multiplying the card's interface width by the speed of its memory. In the case of DDR type RAM, it should be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the memory bandwidth, 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 number of texture map elements (texels) that are applied in one second. This figure is worked out by multiplying the total number of texture units of the card by the core clock 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 per second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels the video card could possibly write to the local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is worked out by multiplying the number of Raster Operations Pipelines by the the card's clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also sometimes called Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel rate is also dependant on lots of other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the maximum fill rate.

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