GeForce 9600 GSO 512MB vs GeForce GTX 1050

Intro

Compare all that to the GeForce GTX 1050, which has a clock frequency of 1354 MHz and a GDDR5 memory speed of 1750 MHz. It also uses a 128-bit bus, and makes use of a 14 nm design. It is comprised of 640 SPUs, 40 Texture Address Units, and 32 Raster Operation Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GTX 1050		75 Watts
GeForce 9600 GSO 512MB		90 Watts
	Difference: 15 Watts (20%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the GeForce GTX 1050 will be 99% quicker than the GeForce 9600 GSO 512MB in general, due to its higher bandwidth. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1050		114688 MB/sec
GeForce 9600 GSO 512MB		57600 MB/sec
	Difference: 57088 (99%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 1050 should be a lot (about 74%) faster with regards to texture filtering than the GeForce 9600 GSO 512MB. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1050		54160 Mtexels/sec
GeForce 9600 GSO 512MB		31200 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 22960 (74%)

Pixel Rate

The GeForce GTX 1050 will be much (more or less 317%) faster with regards to anti-aliasing than the GeForce 9600 GSO 512MB, and also able to handle higher screen resolutions better. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1050		43328 Mpixels/sec
GeForce 9600 GSO 512MB		10400 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 32928 (317%)

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 information (counted in MB per second) that can be transferred across the external memory interface in a second. It's calculated by multiplying the card's interface width by the speed of its memory. If the card has DDR type memory, the result should be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the memory bandwidth, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, HDR and high resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels that the graphics card could possibly record to the local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is worked out by multiplying the amount of ROPs by the the core speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also sometimes called Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel output rate also depends on quite a few other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the max fill rate.