GeForce 9600 GSO ASUS 512 vs GeForce GTX 560 Ti

Intro

Compare all that to the GeForce GTX 560 Ti, which makes use of a 40 nm design. nVidia has set the core frequency at 822 MHz. The GDDR5 RAM works at a frequency of 1002 MHz on this card. It features 384 SPUs as well as 64 TAUs and 32 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce 9600 GSO ASUS 512		84 Watts
GeForce GTX 560 Ti		170 Watts
	Difference: 86 Watts (102%)

Memory Bandwidth

The GeForce GTX 560 Ti should theoretically perform quite a bit faster than the GeForce 9600 GSO ASUS 512 overall. (explain)

GeForce GTX 560 Ti		128256 MB/sec
GeForce 9600 GSO ASUS 512		16000 MB/sec
	Difference: 112256 (702%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 560 Ti is much (more or less 99%) more effective at AF than the GeForce 9600 GSO ASUS 512. (explain)

GeForce GTX 560 Ti		52608 Mtexels/sec
GeForce 9600 GSO ASUS 512		26400 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 26208 (99%)

Pixel Rate

If using high levels of AA is important to you, then the GeForce GTX 560 Ti is superior to the GeForce 9600 GSO ASUS 512, and very much so. (explain)

GeForce GTX 560 Ti		26304 Mpixels/sec
GeForce 9600 GSO ASUS 512		6600 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 19704 (299%)

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: Bandwidth is the maximum amount of information (in units of megabytes per second) that can be transferred across the external memory interface in one second. It's calculated by multiplying the card's interface width by its memory clock speed. If the card has DDR memory, it should be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the bandwidth is, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, HDR and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum amount of texture map elements (texels) that can be applied in one second. This figure is worked out by multiplying the total amount of texture units of the card by the core speed of the chip. The higher this number, the better the card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels processed per second.

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