GeForce 9500 GT 1GB GDDR3 vs Nvidia Titan X

Intro

Compare all of that to the Nvidia Titan X, which uses a 16 nm design. nVidia has clocked the core speed at 1417 MHz. The GDDR5X RAM works at a speed of 1251 MHz on this specific card. It features 3584 SPUs along with 224 Texture Address Units and 96 Rasterization Operator Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce 9500 GT 1GB GDDR3		50 Watts
Nvidia Titan X		250 Watts
	Difference: 200 Watts (400%)

Memory Bandwidth

In theory, the Nvidia Titan X will be 1820% quicker than the GeForce 9500 GT 1GB GDDR3 in general, because of its greater data rate. (explain)

Nvidia Titan X		491520 MB/sec
GeForce 9500 GT 1GB GDDR3		25600 MB/sec
	Difference: 465920 (1820%)

Texel Rate

The Nvidia Titan X should be quite a bit (approximately 3507%) more effective at AF than the GeForce 9500 GT 1GB GDDR3. (explain)

Nvidia Titan X		317408 Mtexels/sec
GeForce 9500 GT 1GB GDDR3		8800 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 308608 (3507%)

Pixel Rate

If running with lots of anti-aliasing is important to you, then the Nvidia Titan X is superior to the GeForce 9500 GT 1GB GDDR3, by a large margin. (explain)

Nvidia Titan X		136032 Mpixels/sec
GeForce 9500 GT 1GB GDDR3		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: Memory bandwidth is the max amount of data (counted in MB per second) that can be transported over the external memory interface within a second. The number is calculated by multiplying the card's bus width by the speed of its memory. If the card has DDR type memory, it must be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the 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 are processed per second. This number is worked out by multiplying the total number of texture units by the core speed of the chip. The better the texel rate, the better the video card will be at texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels applied in a second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels the graphics card can possibly record to the 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 the card's clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - aka Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel fill rate is also dependant on lots of other factors, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the maximum fill rate.