GeForce 9500 GT 1GB GDDR3 vs GeForce RTX 2070

Intro

Compare all of that to the GeForce RTX 2070, which has a GPU core clock speed of 1410 MHz, and 8192 MB of GDDR6 RAM running at 1750 MHz through a 256-bit bus. It also is made up of 2304 SPUs, 144 Texture Address Units, and 64 Raster Operation Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce 9500 GT 1GB GDDR3		50 Watts
GeForce RTX 2070		175 Watts
	Difference: 125 Watts (250%)

Memory Bandwidth

Performance-wise, the GeForce RTX 2070 should in theory be quite a bit superior to the GeForce 9500 GT 1GB GDDR3 in general. (explain)

GeForce RTX 2070		458752 MB/sec
GeForce 9500 GT 1GB GDDR3		25600 MB/sec
	Difference: 433152 (1692%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce RTX 2070 will be quite a bit (approximately 2207%) more effective at anisotropic filtering than the GeForce 9500 GT 1GB GDDR3. (explain)

GeForce RTX 2070		203040 Mtexels/sec
GeForce 9500 GT 1GB GDDR3		8800 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 194240 (2207%)

Pixel Rate

If running with a high resolution is important to you, then the GeForce RTX 2070 is the winner, by a large margin. (explain)

GeForce RTX 2070		90240 Mpixels/sec
GeForce 9500 GT 1GB GDDR3		4400 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 85840 (1951%)

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 (counted in MB per second) that can be transported across the external memory interface within a second. It is calculated by multiplying the card's bus width by its memory clock speed. If it uses DDR type RAM, the result should be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the card's memory bandwidth, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, HDR and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum amount of texture map elements (texels) that can be processed per second. This figure is worked out by multiplying the total texture units by the core clock 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 applied per second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels that the graphics card could possibly write to its local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is worked out by multiplying the number of ROPs by the the core clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also called Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel rate is also dependant on quite a few other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the maximum fill rate.