GeForce 9600 GSO ASUS 512 vs GeForce GTX Titan Black

Intro

Compare those specifications to the GeForce GTX Titan Black, which comes with a clock speed of 889 MHz and a GDDR5 memory speed of 1750 MHz. It also makes use of a 384-bit memory bus, and makes use of a 28 nm design. It is made up of 2880 SPUs, 240 Texture Address Units, and 48 Raster Operation Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce 9600 GSO ASUS 512		84 Watts
GeForce GTX Titan Black		250 Watts
	Difference: 166 Watts (198%)

Memory Bandwidth

The GeForce GTX Titan Black should theoretically be a lot faster than the GeForce 9600 GSO ASUS 512 overall. (explain)

GeForce GTX Titan Black		336000 MB/sec
GeForce 9600 GSO ASUS 512		16000 MB/sec
	Difference: 320000 (2000%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX Titan Black is quite a bit (approximately 708%) better at texture filtering than the GeForce 9600 GSO ASUS 512. (explain)

GeForce GTX Titan Black		213360 Mtexels/sec
GeForce 9600 GSO ASUS 512		26400 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 186960 (708%)

Pixel Rate

If using high levels of AA is important to you, then the GeForce GTX Titan Black is a better choice, by far. (explain)

GeForce GTX Titan Black		42672 Mpixels/sec
GeForce 9600 GSO ASUS 512		6600 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 36072 (547%)

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 data (counted in MB per second) that can be transported past the external memory interface in one second. It's calculated by multiplying the card's interface width by its memory speed. If the card has DDR RAM, it must be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, HDR and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum texture map elements (texels) that are applied in one second. This figure is calculated by multiplying the total number of texture units by the core speed of the chip. The higher the texel rate, the better the graphics 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 that the graphics chip can possibly write to its local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is worked out by multiplying the amount of ROPs by the clock speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - aka Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel rate also depends on many other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the max fill rate.