GeForce 8800 GTS (G92) vs GeForce 9600 GT 1GB

Intro

The GeForce 8800 GTS (G92) has a GPU core clock speed of 650 MHz, and the 512 MB of GDDR3 RAM is set to run at 970 MHz through a 256-bit bus. It also features 128 Stream Processors, 64 Texture Address Units, and 16 Raster Operation Units.

Compare those specs to the GeForce 9600 GT 1GB, which has core clock speeds of 650 MHz on the GPU, and 900 MHz on the 1024 MB of GDDR3 memory. It features 64 SPUs along with 32 TAUs and 16 Rasterization Operator Units.

Price Comparison

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Specifications

Model	GeForce 8800 GTS (G92)	GeForce 9600 GT 1GB
Manufacturer	nVidia	nVidia
Year	Dec 2007	Feb 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	1024 MB
Core Speed	650 MHz	650 MHz
Shader Speed	1625 MHz	1625 MHz
Memory Speed	970 MHz	900 MHz
Unified Shaders	128	64
Texture Mapping Units	64	32
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	95 watts
Shader Model	4.0	4.0
Bandwidth	62080 MB/sec	57600 MB/sec
Texel Rate	41600 Mtexels/sec	20800 Mtexels/sec
Pixel Rate	10400 Mpixels/sec	10400 Mpixels/sec

Memory Bandwidth: Bandwidth is the maximum amount of information (counted in MB per second) that can be transferred across the external memory interface in a second. It is worked out by multiplying the interface width by its memory clock speed. If the card has DDR memory, it should be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the bandwidth is, 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 texture map elements (texels) that can be applied in one second. This figure is calculated by multiplying the total number of texture units 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 applied in a second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels that the graphics card could possibly record to the local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is worked out by multiplying the amount of Render Output Units by the the core speed of the card. 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 quite a few other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the maximum fill rate.