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GeForce 9600 GSO 768MB vs GeForce 9600 GT 1GB

Intro

The GeForce 9600 GSO 768MB comes with a clock frequency of 550 MHz and a GDDR3 memory frequency of 800 MHz. It also uses a 192-bit memory bus, and makes use of a 65 nm design. It is comprised of 96 SPUs, 48 Texture Address Units, and 12 ROPs.

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 RAM. It features 64 SPUs as well as 32 Texture Address Units and 16 Rasterization Operator Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce 9600 GSO 768MB 84 Watts
GeForce 9600 GT 1GB 95 Watts
Difference: 11 Watts (13%)

Memory Bandwidth

The GeForce 9600 GT 1GB should theoretically be much faster than the GeForce 9600 GSO 768MB in general. (explain)

GeForce 9600 GT 1GB 57600 MB/sec
GeForce 9600 GSO 768MB 38400 MB/sec
Difference: 19200 (50%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce 9600 GSO 768MB is much (approximately 27%) faster with regards to AF than the GeForce 9600 GT 1GB. (explain)

GeForce 9600 GSO 768MB 26400 Mtexels/sec
GeForce 9600 GT 1GB 20800 Mtexels/sec
Difference: 5600 (27%)

Pixel Rate

If running with a high resolution is important to you, then the GeForce 9600 GT 1GB is the winner, by far. (explain)

GeForce 9600 GT 1GB 10400 Mpixels/sec
GeForce 9600 GSO 768MB 6600 Mpixels/sec
Difference: 3800 (58%)

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.

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Specifications

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Model GeForce 9600 GSO 768MB GeForce 9600 GT 1GB
Manufacturer nVidia nVidia
Year May 2008 Feb 2008
Code Name G92 G94a/b
Memory 768 MB 1024 MB
Core Speed 550 MHz 650 MHz
Memory Speed 1600 MHz 1800 MHz
Power (Max TDP) 84 watts 95 watts
Bandwidth 38400 MB/sec 57600 MB/sec
Texel Rate 26400 Mtexels/sec 20800 Mtexels/sec
Pixel Rate 6600 Mpixels/sec 10400 Mpixels/sec
Unified Shaders 96 64
Texture Mapping Units 48 32
Render Output Units 12 16
Bus Type GDDR3 GDDR3
Bus Width 192-bit 256-bit
Fab Process 65 nm 65/55 nm
Transistors 754 million 505 million
Bus PCIe x16 2.0 PCIe x16 2.0
DirectX Version DirectX 10 DirectX 10
OpenGL Version OpenGL 3.0 OpenGL 3.0

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

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum amount of texture map elements (texels) that can be applied in one second. This figure is calculated by multiplying the total texture units by the core speed of the chip. The higher the texel rate, the better the video 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 most pixels the video card could possibly write to its local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is calculated by multiplying the amount of Raster Operations Pipelines by the clock speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also called Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel rate also depends on many other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the maximum fill rate.

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