GeForce 9600 GSO 1.5GB vs Nvidia Titan X

Intro

Compare those specifications to the Nvidia Titan X, which comes with GPU clock speed of 1417 MHz, and 12288 MB of GDDR5X RAM running at 1251 MHz through a 384-bit bus. It also is made up of 3584 Stream Processors, 224 Texture Address Units, and 96 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce 9600 GSO 1.5GB		84 Watts
Nvidia Titan X		250 Watts
	Difference: 166 Watts (198%)

Memory Bandwidth

The Nvidia Titan X should theoretically perform quite a bit faster than the GeForce 9600 GSO 1.5GB in general. (explain)

Nvidia Titan X		491520 MB/sec
GeForce 9600 GSO 1.5GB		38400 MB/sec
	Difference: 453120 (1180%)

Texel Rate

The Nvidia Titan X will be much (approximately 1102%) better at anisotropic filtering than the GeForce 9600 GSO 1.5GB. (explain)

Nvidia Titan X		317408 Mtexels/sec
GeForce 9600 GSO 1.5GB		26400 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 291008 (1102%)

Pixel Rate

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

Nvidia Titan X		136032 Mpixels/sec
GeForce 9600 GSO 1.5GB		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: Bandwidth is the max amount of information (measured in MB per second) that can be transferred past the external memory interface in a second. The number is worked out by multiplying the card's bus width by its memory clock speed. In the case of DDR type RAM, it must be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the card's memory bandwidth, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, HDR and higher screen resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum number of texture map elements (texels) that are processed per second. This figure is worked out 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 card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels in one second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels that the graphics chip could possibly record to its local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is worked out by multiplying the number of colour ROPs by the the card's clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - aka Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel fill rate also depends on lots of other factors, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the max fill rate.