GeForce 810M vs GeForce 9600 GT 512MB

Intro

Compare those specs to the GeForce 9600 GT 512MB, which features core speeds of 650 MHz on the GPU, and 900 MHz on the 512 MB of GDDR3 RAM. It features 64 SPUs as well as 32 Texture Address Units and 16 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce 810M		15 Watts
GeForce 9600 GT 512MB		95 Watts
	Difference: 80 Watts (533%)

Memory Bandwidth

In theory, the GeForce 9600 GT 512MB should be 300% faster than the GeForce 810M in general, because of its greater data rate. (explain)

GeForce 9600 GT 512MB		57600 MB/sec
GeForce 810M		14400 MB/sec
	Difference: 43200 (300%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce 9600 GT 512MB is much (more or less 252%) better at AF than the GeForce 810M. (explain)

GeForce 9600 GT 512MB		20800 Mtexels/sec
GeForce 810M		5904 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 14896 (252%)

Pixel Rate

If running with lots of anti-aliasing is important to you, then the GeForce 9600 GT 512MB is superior to the GeForce 810M, by a large margin. (explain)

GeForce 9600 GT 512MB		10400 Mpixels/sec
GeForce 810M		2952 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 7448 (252%)

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 (in units of MB per second) that can be transported over the external memory interface in a second. It is calculated by multiplying the interface width by its memory speed. If it uses DDR RAM, it must be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the bandwidth is, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, High Dynamic Range and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum texture map elements (texels) that can be processed per 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 handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels applied per second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels the graphics card could possibly write to the local memory per 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 is also dependant on quite a few other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the max fill rate.