GeForce 9600 GSO 768MB vs GeForce RTX 3090

Intro

Compare those specs to the GeForce RTX 3090, which features clock speeds of 1395 MHz on the GPU, and 1219 MHz on the 24576 MB of GDDR6X memory. It features 10496 SPUs as well as 328 Texture Address Units and 112 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce 9600 GSO 768MB		84 Watts
GeForce RTX 3090		350 Watts
	Difference: 266 Watts (317%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the GeForce RTX 3090 is 2397% faster than the GeForce 9600 GSO 768MB in general, due to its greater bandwidth. (explain)

GeForce RTX 3090		958668 MB/sec
GeForce 9600 GSO 768MB		38400 MB/sec
	Difference: 920268 (2397%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce RTX 3090 is much (approximately 1633%) faster with regards to anisotropic filtering than the GeForce 9600 GSO 768MB. (explain)

GeForce RTX 3090		457560 Mtexels/sec
GeForce 9600 GSO 768MB		26400 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 431160 (1633%)

Pixel Rate

If running with lots of anti-aliasing is important to you, then the GeForce RTX 3090 is superior to the GeForce 9600 GSO 768MB, and very much so. (explain)

GeForce RTX 3090		156240 Mpixels/sec
GeForce 9600 GSO 768MB		6600 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 149640 (2267%)

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 max amount of data (in units of MB per second) that can be transferred past the external memory interface in one second. It's calculated by multiplying the card's interface width by the speed of its memory. If it uses DDR RAM, it must be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the memory bandwidth, the faster 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 amount of texture map elements (texels) that are applied per second. This is calculated by multiplying the total number of texture units of the card by the core clock speed of the chip. The better the texel rate, the better the graphics card will be at texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels applied per second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels that the graphics card could possibly record to its local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is calculated by multiplying the number of Render Output Units by the the card's clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also sometimes called Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel output rate is also dependant on many other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the max fill rate.