GeForce 9600 GSO ASUS 512 vs Nvidia Titan X

Intro

Compare that to the Nvidia Titan X, which comes with clock speeds of 1417 MHz on the GPU, and 1251 MHz on the 12288 MB of GDDR5X RAM. It features 3584 SPUs along with 224 Texture Address Units and 96 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

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

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the Nvidia Titan X should perform much faster than the GeForce 9600 GSO ASUS 512 overall. (explain)

Nvidia Titan X		491520 MB/sec
GeForce 9600 GSO ASUS 512		16000 MB/sec
	Difference: 475520 (2972%)

Texel Rate

The Nvidia Titan X is much (approximately 1102%) better at anisotropic filtering than the GeForce 9600 GSO ASUS 512. (explain)

Nvidia Titan X		317408 Mtexels/sec
GeForce 9600 GSO ASUS 512		26400 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 291008 (1102%)

Pixel Rate

The Nvidia Titan X is a lot (about 1961%) better at anti-aliasing than the GeForce 9600 GSO ASUS 512, and will be able to handle higher resolutions without losing too much performance. (explain)

Nvidia Titan X		136032 Mpixels/sec
GeForce 9600 GSO ASUS 512		6600 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 129432 (1961%)

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 information (measured in MB per second) that can be moved over the external memory interface in a second. The number is worked out by multiplying the card's interface width by its memory speed. If it uses DDR type RAM, it must be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the bandwidth is, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, HDR and higher screen resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum texture map elements (texels) that are processed in one second. This number is worked out by multiplying the total amount of texture units of the card by the core clock speed of the chip. The better the texel rate, the better the video 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 maximum amount of pixels that the graphics chip can possibly record to its local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is worked out by multiplying the number of colour ROPs by the the card's 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 rate also depends on lots of other factors, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the max fill rate.