GeForce 9600 GSO 512MB vs Nvidia Titan X

Intro

Compare those specifications to the Nvidia Titan X, which features a GPU core clock speed of 1417 MHz, and 12288 MB of GDDR5X RAM set to run at 1251 MHz through a 384-bit bus. It also is comprised of 3584 Stream Processors, 224 Texture Address Units, and 96 Raster Operation Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce 9600 GSO 512MB		90 Watts
Nvidia Titan X		250 Watts
	Difference: 160 Watts (178%)

Memory Bandwidth

In theory, the Nvidia Titan X is 753% faster than the GeForce 9600 GSO 512MB overall, because of its higher data rate. (explain)

Nvidia Titan X		491520 MB/sec
GeForce 9600 GSO 512MB		57600 MB/sec
	Difference: 433920 (753%)

Texel Rate

The Nvidia Titan X will be a lot (more or less 917%) better at AF than the GeForce 9600 GSO 512MB. (explain)

Nvidia Titan X		317408 Mtexels/sec
GeForce 9600 GSO 512MB		31200 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 286208 (917%)

Pixel Rate

If using lots of anti-aliasing is important to you, then the Nvidia Titan X is a better choice, by far. (explain)

Nvidia Titan X		136032 Mpixels/sec
GeForce 9600 GSO 512MB		10400 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 125632 (1208%)

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 transferred over the external memory interface in one second. It's calculated by multiplying the interface width by its memory clock speed. If the card has DDR type memory, it should be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the memory bandwidth, 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 number of texture map elements (texels) that can be processed in one second. This is worked out by multiplying the total amount of texture units by the core speed of the chip. The better this number, the better the graphics card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels processed per second.

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