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GeForce 9600 GSO 768MB vs GeForce GTX 960M

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The GeForce 9600 GSO 768MB uses a 65 nm design. nVidia has clocked the core speed at 550 MHz. The GDDR3 RAM runs at a frequency of 800 MHz on this particular card. It features 96 SPUs as well as 48 Texture Address Units and 12 ROPs.

Compare all of that to the GeForce GTX 960M, which has core clock speeds of 1096 MHz on the GPU, and 1000 MHz on the 2048 MB of GDDR5 RAM. It features 640 SPUs along with 40 Texture Address Units and 16 Rasterization Operator Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GTX 960M 65 Watts
GeForce 9600 GSO 768MB 84 Watts
Difference: 19 Watts (29%)

Memory Bandwidth

As far as performance goes, the GeForce GTX 960M should theoretically be a lot better than the GeForce 9600 GSO 768MB overall. (explain)

GeForce GTX 960M 64000 MB/sec
GeForce 9600 GSO 768MB 38400 MB/sec
Difference: 25600 (67%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 960M should be quite a bit (about 66%) better at texture filtering than the GeForce 9600 GSO 768MB. (explain)

GeForce GTX 960M 43840 Mtexels/sec
GeForce 9600 GSO 768MB 26400 Mtexels/sec
Difference: 17440 (66%)

Pixel Rate

The GeForce GTX 960M is much (approximately 166%) more effective at AA than the GeForce 9600 GSO 768MB, and should be able to handle higher screen resolutions better. (explain)

GeForce GTX 960M 17536 Mpixels/sec
GeForce 9600 GSO 768MB 6600 Mpixels/sec
Difference: 10936 (166%)

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 768MB GeForce GTX 960M
Manufacturer nVidia nVidia
Year May 2008 March 12 2015
Code Name G92 GM107
Memory 768 MB 2048 MB
Core Speed 550 MHz 1096 MHz
Memory Speed 1600 MHz 4000 MHz
Power (Max TDP) 84 watts 65 watts
Bandwidth 38400 MB/sec 64000 MB/sec
Texel Rate 26400 Mtexels/sec 43840 Mtexels/sec
Pixel Rate 6600 Mpixels/sec 17536 Mpixels/sec
Unified Shaders 96 640
Texture Mapping Units 48 40
Render Output Units 12 16
Bus Type GDDR3 GDDR5
Bus Width 192-bit 128-bit
Fab Process 65 nm 28 nm
Transistors 754 million (Unknown) million
Bus PCIe x16 2.0 PCIe 3.0 x16
DirectX Version DirectX 10 DirectX 12
OpenGL Version OpenGL 3.0 OpenGL 4.5

Memory Bandwidth: Memory bandwidth is the largest amount of data (counted in megabytes per second) that can be transferred past the external memory interface within a second. It is calculated by multiplying the bus width by its memory clock speed. If the card has DDR type RAM, the result should be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. 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 number of texture map elements (texels) that can be applied per second. This is calculated by multiplying the total amount of texture units by the core clock speed of the chip. The higher the texel rate, the better the video card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels applied in one second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels the graphics card could possibly record to the local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is calculated by multiplying the amount of ROPs by the the card's clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also sometimes called Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel output rate also depends on lots of other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the maximum fill rate.

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GeForce 9600 GSO 768MB

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