GeForce 8800 GTS (G92) vs GeForce 9600 GSO 512MB

Intro

The GeForce 8800 GTS (G92) has a clock speed of 650 MHz and a GDDR3 memory frequency of 970 MHz. It also features a 256-bit memory bus, and makes use of a 65 nm design. It features 128 SPUs, 64 Texture Address Units, and 16 ROPs.

Compare all that to the GeForce 9600 GSO 512MB, which has GPU clock speed of 650 MHz, and 512 MB of GDDR3 memory set to run at 900 MHz through a 256-bit bus. It also is made up of 96 Stream Processors, 48 TAUs, and 16 ROPs.

Price Comparison

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Specifications

Model	GeForce 8800 GTS (G92)	GeForce 9600 GSO 512MB
Manufacturer	nVidia	nVidia
Year	Dec 2007	October 2008
Code Name	G92	G94a/b
Fab Process	65 nm	65/55 nm
Bus	PCIe x16 2.0	PCIe x16 2.0
Memory	512 MB	512 MB
Core Speed	650 MHz	650 MHz
Shader Speed	1625 MHz	1625 MHz
Memory Speed	970 MHz	900 MHz
Unified Shaders	128	96
Texture Mapping Units	64	48
Render Output Units	16	16
Bus Type	GDDR3	GDDR3
Bus Width	256-bit	256-bit
DirectX Version	DirectX 10	DirectX 10
OpenGL Version	OpenGL 3.0	OpenGL 3.0
Power (Max TDP)	135 watts	90 watts
Shader Model	4.0	4.0
Bandwidth	62080 MB/sec	57600 MB/sec
Texel Rate	41600 Mtexels/sec	31200 Mtexels/sec
Pixel Rate	10400 Mpixels/sec	10400 Mpixels/sec

Memory Bandwidth: Bandwidth is the maximum amount of data (counted in MB per second) that can be moved over the external memory interface in one second. It is calculated by multiplying the bus width by its memory clock speed. If the card has DDR type RAM, it should be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the card's memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, High Dynamic Range and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum texture map elements (texels) that can be processed per second. This figure is worked out by multiplying the total amount of texture units by the core speed of the chip. The higher this number, the better the card will be at 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 chip could possibly record to the local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is calculated by multiplying the number of ROPs by the the core speed of the card. 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 fill rate also depends on many other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the maximum fill rate.