GeForce 9600 GSO 1.5GB vs GeForce GT 430 (OEM)

Intro

Compare all of that to the GeForce GT 430 (OEM), which comes with core clock speeds of 700 MHz on the GPU, and 900 MHz on the 2048 MB of GDDR3 RAM. It features 96 SPUs along with 16 Texture Address Units and 4 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GT 430 (OEM)		60 Watts
GeForce 9600 GSO 1.5GB		84 Watts
	Difference: 24 Watts (40%)

Memory Bandwidth

The GeForce 9600 GSO 1.5GB should in theory perform much faster than the GeForce GT 430 (OEM) in general. (explain)

GeForce 9600 GSO 1.5GB		38400 MB/sec
GeForce GT 430 (OEM)		28800 MB/sec
	Difference: 9600 (33%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce 9600 GSO 1.5GB should be much (approximately 136%) faster with regards to texture filtering than the GeForce GT 430 (OEM). (explain)

GeForce 9600 GSO 1.5GB		26400 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GT 430 (OEM)		11200 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 15200 (136%)

Pixel Rate

The GeForce 9600 GSO 1.5GB will be much (more or less 136%) more effective at AA than the GeForce GT 430 (OEM), and should be able to handle higher screen resolutions better. (explain)

GeForce 9600 GSO 1.5GB		6600 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GT 430 (OEM)		2800 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 3800 (136%)

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

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum number of texture map elements (texels) that are applied per second. This number is calculated by multiplying the total number of texture units of the card by the core clock speed of the chip. The higher the texel rate, the better the graphics card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels applied in one second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels the graphics card can possibly record to its local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is calculated by multiplying the number of ROPs by the clock speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also sometimes 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, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the maximum fill rate.