GeForce 9600 GSO 768MB vs GeForce GTX 950

Intro

Compare that to the GeForce GTX 950, which comes with core clock speeds of 1024 MHz on the GPU, and 1652 MHz on the 2048 MB of GDDR5 RAM. It features 768 SPUs along with 48 Texture Address Units and 32 Rasterization Operator Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce 9600 GSO 768MB		84 Watts
GeForce GTX 950		90 Watts
	Difference: 6 Watts (7%)

Memory Bandwidth

In theory, the GeForce GTX 950 is 175% quicker than the GeForce 9600 GSO 768MB in general, because of its greater data rate. (explain)

GeForce GTX 950		105728 MB/sec
GeForce 9600 GSO 768MB		38400 MB/sec
	Difference: 67328 (175%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 950 is a lot (about 86%) faster with regards to anisotropic filtering than the GeForce 9600 GSO 768MB. (explain)

GeForce GTX 950		49152 Mtexels/sec
GeForce 9600 GSO 768MB		26400 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 22752 (86%)

Pixel Rate

If running with high levels of AA is important to you, then the GeForce GTX 950 is superior to the GeForce 9600 GSO 768MB, by a large margin. (explain)

GeForce GTX 950		32768 Mpixels/sec
GeForce 9600 GSO 768MB		6600 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 26168 (396%)

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 maximum amount of data (measured in megabytes per second) that can be transferred past the external memory interface in a second. It's calculated by multiplying the card's bus width by the speed of its memory. In the case of DDR type RAM, it should be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the bandwidth is, 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 in one second. This number is worked out by multiplying the total number of texture units of the card by the core speed of the chip. The higher this number, the better the video card will be at texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels applied in a second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels that the graphics card could possibly write to its local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is worked out by multiplying the amount of ROPs by the the core clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - sometimes also referred to as Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel output rate is also dependant on many other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the max fill rate.