GeForce 9600 GSO 768MB vs GeForce GT 1030

Intro

Compare all of that to the GeForce GT 1030, which has GPU clock speed of 1265 MHz, and 2048 MB of GDDR5 memory set to run at 1502 MHz through a 64-bit bus. It also is made up of 384 SPUs, 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 768MB		84 Watts
	Difference: 54 Watts (180%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the GeForce GT 1030 is 28% faster than the GeForce 9600 GSO 768MB overall, because of its higher data rate. (explain)

GeForce GT 1030		49152 MB/sec
GeForce 9600 GSO 768MB		38400 MB/sec
	Difference: 10752 (28%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GT 1030 should be a lot (about 53%) faster with regards to anisotropic filtering than the GeForce 9600 GSO 768MB. (explain)

GeForce GT 1030		40480 Mtexels/sec
GeForce 9600 GSO 768MB		26400 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 14080 (53%)

Pixel Rate

If using high levels of AA is important to you, then the GeForce GT 1030 is superior to the GeForce 9600 GSO 768MB, and very much so. (explain)

GeForce GT 1030		20240 Mpixels/sec
GeForce 9600 GSO 768MB		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

Specifications

Memory Bandwidth: Bandwidth is the max amount of information (measured in MB per second) that can be moved past the external memory interface in a second. It's worked out by multiplying the bus width by the speed of its memory. If the card has DDR type memory, it must be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. 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 number of texture map elements (texels) that are applied in one second. This is worked out by multiplying the total number of texture units by the core speed of the chip. The better the texel rate, the better the video card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels in a second.

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