GeForce 9500 GT DDR2 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 memory. It features 3584 SPUs along with 224 TAUs and 96 Rasterization Operator Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce 9500 GT DDR2		50 Watts
Nvidia Titan X		250 Watts
	Difference: 200 Watts (400%)

Memory Bandwidth

The Nvidia Titan X, in theory, should perform quite a bit faster than the GeForce 9500 GT DDR2 in general. (explain)

Nvidia Titan X		491520 MB/sec
GeForce 9500 GT DDR2		16000 MB/sec
	Difference: 475520 (2972%)

Texel Rate

The Nvidia Titan X will be quite a bit (approximately 3507%) better at AF than the GeForce 9500 GT DDR2. (explain)

Nvidia Titan X		317408 Mtexels/sec
GeForce 9500 GT DDR2		8800 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 308608 (3507%)

Pixel Rate

If using a high resolution is important to you, then the Nvidia Titan X is a better choice, and very much so. (explain)

Nvidia Titan X		136032 Mpixels/sec
GeForce 9500 GT DDR2		4400 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 131632 (2992%)

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 (counted in MB per second) that can be moved over the external memory interface within a second. It is worked out by multiplying the bus width by the speed of its memory. If the card has DDR type RAM, it should be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher 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 applied per second. This figure is worked out by multiplying the total amount of texture units by the core clock speed of the chip. The better the texel rate, the better the 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 record to its local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is calculated by multiplying the amount of Render Output Units 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 rate is also dependant on lots of other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the maximum fill rate.