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GeForce 9500 GT DDR2 vs GeForce GTX 560 Ti

Intro

The GeForce 9500 GT DDR2 features a core clock frequency of 550 MHz and a DDR2 memory speed of 500 MHz. It also features a 128-bit bus, and makes use of a 65 nm design. It is made up of 32 SPUs, 16 Texture Address Units, and 8 ROPs.

Compare all of that to the GeForce GTX 560 Ti, which has a core clock frequency of 822 MHz and a GDDR5 memory speed of 1002 MHz. It also makes use of a 256-bit bus, and makes use of a 40 nm design. It features 384 SPUs, 64 TAUs, and 32 ROPs.

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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 be 702% faster than the GeForce 9500 GT DDR2 overall, due to its higher bandwidth. (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 (approximately 498%) better 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 running with a high screen resolution 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 maximum amount of information (counted in MB per second) that can be moved past the external memory interface in a second. It's calculated by multiplying the bus width by its memory speed. If it uses DDR type memory, it should be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the card's memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, HDR and higher screen resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum texture map elements (texels) that are processed in one second. This figure is calculated by multiplying the total texture units 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 per second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels that the graphics card can possibly write to the local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is worked out by multiplying the number of colour ROPs by the the core 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 is also dependant on lots of 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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GeForce 9500 GT DDR2

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Comments

One Response to “GeForce 9500 GT DDR2 vs GeForce GTX 560 Ti”
m says:

thanks.
it really helped!!

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