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GeForce 9600 GSO 384MB vs GeForce GTX 580

Intro

The GeForce 9600 GSO 384MB has a core clock speed of 550 MHz and a GDDR3 memory speed of 800 MHz. It also makes use of a 192-bit memory bus, and makes use of a 65 nm design. It features 96 SPUs, 48 Texture Address Units, and 12 ROPs.

Compare those specs to the GeForce GTX 580, which makes use of a 40 nm design. nVidia has clocked the core speed at 772 MHz. The GDDR5 RAM runs at a frequency of 1002 MHz on this model. It features 512 SPUs as well as 64 TAUs and 48 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce 9600 GSO 384MB 84 Watts
GeForce GTX 580 244 Watts
Difference: 160 Watts (190%)

Memory Bandwidth

The GeForce GTX 580 should in theory be quite a bit faster than the GeForce 9600 GSO 384MB in general. (explain)

GeForce GTX 580 192384 MB/sec
GeForce 9600 GSO 384MB 38400 MB/sec
Difference: 153984 (401%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 580 is quite a bit (approximately 87%) more effective at anisotropic filtering than the GeForce 9600 GSO 384MB. (explain)

GeForce GTX 580 49408 Mtexels/sec
GeForce 9600 GSO 384MB 26400 Mtexels/sec
Difference: 23008 (87%)

Pixel Rate

If using lots of anti-aliasing is important to you, then the GeForce GTX 580 is the winner, and very much so. (explain)

GeForce GTX 580 37056 Mpixels/sec
GeForce 9600 GSO 384MB 6600 Mpixels/sec
Difference: 30456 (461%)

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 9600 GSO 384MB GeForce GTX 580
Manufacturer nVidia nVidia
Year May 2008 November 2010
Code Name G92 GF110
Memory 384 MB 1536 MB
Core Speed 550 MHz 772 MHz
Memory Speed 1600 MHz 4008 MHz
Power (Max TDP) 84 watts 244 watts
Bandwidth 38400 MB/sec 192384 MB/sec
Texel Rate 26400 Mtexels/sec 49408 Mtexels/sec
Pixel Rate 6600 Mpixels/sec 37056 Mpixels/sec
Unified Shaders 96 512
Texture Mapping Units 48 64
Render Output Units 12 48
Bus Type GDDR3 GDDR5
Bus Width 192-bit 384-bit
Fab Process 65 nm 40 nm
Transistors 754 million 3000 million
Bus PCIe x16 2.0 PCIe x16
DirectX Version DirectX 10 DirectX 11
OpenGL Version OpenGL 3.0 OpenGL 4.1

Memory Bandwidth: Bandwidth is the largest amount of information (measured in megabytes per second) that can be moved over the external memory interface in one second. It is worked out by multiplying the bus width by the speed of its memory. If the card has DDR type RAM, it should be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the card's memory bandwidth, the better 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 processed per second. This number is worked out by multiplying the total texture units of the card by the core clock speed of the chip. The better the texel rate, the better the video card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels processed in a second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels the video card can possibly write to the local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is worked out by multiplying the amount of Raster Operations Pipelines by the clock speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also sometimes called Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel rate is also dependant on quite a few other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the max fill rate.

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