GeForce 9600 GSO 384MB vs GeForce GTX 570

Intro

Compare that to the GeForce GTX 570, which uses a 40 nm design. nVidia has clocked the core frequency at 732 MHz. The GDDR5 RAM is set to run at a speed of 950 MHz on this particular model. It features 480 SPUs along with 60 TAUs and 40 Rasterization Operator Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce 9600 GSO 384MB		84 Watts
GeForce GTX 570		219 Watts
	Difference: 135 Watts (161%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the GeForce GTX 570 should perform much faster than the GeForce 9600 GSO 384MB overall. (explain)

GeForce GTX 570		152000 MB/sec
GeForce 9600 GSO 384MB		38400 MB/sec
	Difference: 113600 (296%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 570 should be a lot (about 66%) faster with regards to anisotropic filtering than the GeForce 9600 GSO 384MB. (explain)

GeForce GTX 570		43920 Mtexels/sec
GeForce 9600 GSO 384MB		26400 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 17520 (66%)

Pixel Rate

The GeForce GTX 570 will be much (more or less 344%) faster with regards to AA than the GeForce 9600 GSO 384MB, and also should be able to handle higher screen resolutions better. (explain)

GeForce GTX 570		29280 Mpixels/sec
GeForce 9600 GSO 384MB		6600 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 22680 (344%)

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 information (measured in MB per second) that can be transferred across the external memory interface in one second. The number is calculated by multiplying the interface width by the speed of its memory. In the case of DDR type memory, it should be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the bandwidth is, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, High Dynamic Range and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum amount of texture map elements (texels) that are processed per second. This 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 video card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels in a second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels that the graphics card could possibly write to the local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number 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 output rate also depends on many other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the max fill rate.