GeForce 9600 GSO 384MB vs GeForce GT 220 GDDR3

Intro

The GeForce 9600 GSO 384MB features a clock frequency of 550 MHz and a GDDR3 memory frequency of 800 MHz. It also features a 192-bit bus, and uses a 65 nm design. It is comprised of 96 SPUs, 48 Texture Address Units, and 12 ROPs.

Compare all of that to the GeForce GT 220 GDDR3, which has a clock speed of 625 MHz and a GDDR3 memory speed of 1012 MHz. It also makes use of a 128-bit memory bus, and makes use of a 40 nm design. It is comprised of 48 SPUs, 16 TAUs, and 8 Raster Operation Units.

Price Comparison

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Specifications

Model	GeForce 9600 GSO 384MB	GeForce GT 220 GDDR3
Manufacturer	nVidia	nVidia
Year	May 2008	October 2009
Code Name	G92	GT216
Fab Process	65 nm	40 nm
Bus	PCIe x16 2.0	PCIe 2.0
Memory	384 MB	512 MB
Core Speed	550 MHz	625 MHz
Shader Speed	1375 MHz	1360 MHz
Memory Speed	800 MHz (1600 MHz effective)	1012 MHz (2024 MHz effective)
Unified Shaders	96	48
Texture Mapping Units	48	16
Render Output Units	12	8
Bus Type	GDDR3	GDDR3
Bus Width	192-bit	128-bit
DirectX Version	DirectX 10	DirectX 10.1
OpenGL Version	OpenGL 3.0	OpenGL 3.2
Power (Max TDP)	84 watts	58 watts
Shader Model	4.0	4.1
Bandwidth	38400 MB/sec	32384 MB/sec
Texel Rate	26400 Mtexels/sec	10000 Mtexels/sec
Pixel Rate	6600 Mpixels/sec	5000 Mpixels/sec

Memory Bandwidth: Bandwidth is the max amount of data (counted in MB per second) that can be moved over the external memory interface in a second. The number is worked out by multiplying the bus width by the speed of its memory. If it uses DDR type RAM, it should be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses 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 number of 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 better this number, the better the graphics card will be at texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels applied in one second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels the graphics card could possibly record to the local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is calculated by multiplying the number of ROPs by the the core speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also sometimes called Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel 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 maximum fill rate.