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GeForce 9500 GT DDR2 vs GeForce GTX 560 Ti

Intro

The GeForce 9500 GT DDR2 uses a 65 nm design. nVidia has set the core speed at 550 MHz. The DDR2 RAM runs at a frequency of 500 MHz on this model. It features 32 SPUs along with 16 Texture Address Units and 8 Rasterization Operator Units.

Compare those specs to the GeForce GTX 560 Ti, which uses a 40 nm design. nVidia has clocked the core speed at 822 MHz. The GDDR5 RAM runs at a frequency of 1002 MHz on this specific model. It features 384 SPUs along with 64 TAUs and 32 Rasterization Operator Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce 9500 GT DDR2 50 Watts
GeForce GTX 560 Ti 170 Watts
Difference: 120 Watts (240%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the GeForce GTX 560 Ti should perform a lot faster than the GeForce 9500 GT DDR2 overall. (explain)

GeForce GTX 560 Ti 128256 MB/sec
GeForce 9500 GT DDR2 16000 MB/sec
Difference: 112256 (702%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 560 Ti is much (more or less 498%) more effective at anisotropic filtering than the GeForce 9500 GT DDR2. (explain)

GeForce GTX 560 Ti 52608 Mtexels/sec
GeForce 9500 GT DDR2 8800 Mtexels/sec
Difference: 43808 (498%)

Pixel Rate

If using high levels of AA is important to you, then the GeForce GTX 560 Ti is the winner, by far. (explain)

GeForce GTX 560 Ti 26304 Mpixels/sec
GeForce 9500 GT DDR2 4400 Mpixels/sec
Difference: 21904 (498%)

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 9500 GT DDR2 GeForce GTX 560 Ti
Manufacturer nVidia nVidia
Year July 2008 January 2011
Code Name G96a GF114
Memory 256 MB 1024 MB
Core Speed 550 MHz 822 MHz
Memory Speed 1000 MHz 4008 MHz
Power (Max TDP) 50 watts 170 watts
Bandwidth 16000 MB/sec 128256 MB/sec
Texel Rate 8800 Mtexels/sec 52608 Mtexels/sec
Pixel Rate 4400 Mpixels/sec 26304 Mpixels/sec
Unified Shaders 32 384
Texture Mapping Units 16 64
Render Output Units 8 32
Bus Type DDR2 GDDR5
Bus Width 128-bit 256-bit
Fab Process 65 nm 40 nm
Transistors 314 million 1950 million
Bus PCIe x16 2.0, PCI PCIe x16
DirectX Version DirectX 10 DirectX 11
OpenGL Version OpenGL 3.0 OpenGL 4.1

Memory Bandwidth: Bandwidth is the max amount of information (measured in megabytes per second) that can be transported across the external memory interface in a second. It's worked out by multiplying the bus width by the speed of its memory. If it uses DDR type RAM, it must be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the card's memory bandwidth, 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 amount of texture map elements (texels) that are processed in one second. This figure is worked out by multiplying the total number of texture units by the core speed of the chip. The higher the texel rate, the better the video card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels per second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels that the graphics chip could possibly write to its local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is calculated by multiplying the number of colour ROPs by the the card's clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - sometimes also referred to as Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel output rate also depends on many other factors, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the maximum fill rate.

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Comments

One Response to “GeForce 9500 GT DDR2 vs GeForce GTX 560 Ti”
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thanks.
it really helped!!

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