GeForce 9600 GSO ASUS 512 vs GeForce GTX 470

Intro

Compare those specifications to the GeForce GTX 470, which comes with core clock speeds of 607 MHz on the GPU, and 837 MHz on the 1280 MB of GDDR5 memory. It features 448 SPUs along with 56 Texture Address Units and 40 Rasterization Operator Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce 9600 GSO ASUS 512		84 Watts
GeForce GTX 470		215 Watts
	Difference: 131 Watts (156%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the GeForce GTX 470 is 737% quicker than the GeForce 9600 GSO ASUS 512 overall, due to its greater data rate. (explain)

GeForce GTX 470		133920 MB/sec
GeForce 9600 GSO ASUS 512		16000 MB/sec
	Difference: 117920 (737%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 470 will be a lot (approximately 29%) faster with regards to AF than the GeForce 9600 GSO ASUS 512. (explain)

GeForce GTX 470		33992 Mtexels/sec
GeForce 9600 GSO ASUS 512		26400 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 7592 (29%)

Pixel Rate

The GeForce GTX 470 will be a lot (more or less 268%) faster with regards to AA than the GeForce 9600 GSO ASUS 512, and will be able to handle higher resolutions while still performing well. (explain)

GeForce GTX 470		24280 Mpixels/sec
GeForce 9600 GSO ASUS 512		6600 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 17680 (268%)

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 largest amount of data (measured in megabytes per second) that can be transferred across the external memory interface within a second. It's calculated by multiplying the bus width by its memory clock speed. If the card has DDR memory, the result should be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, HDR and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum number of texture map elements (texels) that can be applied in one second. This figure is worked out by multiplying the total texture units of the card by the core speed of the chip. The better this number, the better the card will be at 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 write to the local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is calculated by multiplying the number of colour ROPs 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 fill rate also depends on quite a few other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the max fill rate.