GeForce 810M vs GeForce 9600 GSO 1.5GB

Intro

Compare all that to the GeForce 9600 GSO 1.5GB, which uses a 65 nm design. nVidia has clocked the core speed at 550 MHz. The GDDR3 RAM works at a frequency of 800 MHz on this card. It features 96 SPUs as well as 48 Texture Address Units and 12 Rasterization Operator Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce 810M		15 Watts
GeForce 9600 GSO 1.5GB		84 Watts
	Difference: 69 Watts (460%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the GeForce 9600 GSO 1.5GB will be 167% faster than the GeForce 810M overall, because of its greater data rate. (explain)

GeForce 9600 GSO 1.5GB		38400 MB/sec
GeForce 810M		14400 MB/sec
	Difference: 24000 (167%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce 9600 GSO 1.5GB should be much (approximately 347%) better at anisotropic filtering than the GeForce 810M. (explain)

GeForce 9600 GSO 1.5GB		26400 Mtexels/sec
GeForce 810M		5904 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 20496 (347%)

Pixel Rate

The GeForce 9600 GSO 1.5GB should be a lot (approximately 124%) better at anti-aliasing than the GeForce 810M, and will be able to handle higher screen resolutions while still performing well. (explain)

GeForce 9600 GSO 1.5GB		6600 Mpixels/sec
GeForce 810M		2952 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 3648 (124%)

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 information (in units of megabytes per second) that can be transported past the external memory interface within 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 again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the card's memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, HDR 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 of the card by the core speed of the chip. The higher this number, the better the graphics card will be at texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels applied in one second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels that the graphics card could possibly write to its local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is worked out by multiplying the amount of colour ROPs by the the core clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also sometimes called Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel output rate also depends on quite a few other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the max fill rate.