GeForce 9600 GSO 768MB vs Geforce GTX 1080 Ti

Intro

The GeForce 9600 GSO 768MB makes use of a 65 nm design. nVidia has clocked the core speed at 550 MHz. The GDDR3 RAM is set to run at a frequency of 800 MHz on this specific model. It features 96 SPUs as well as 48 Texture Address Units and 12 Rasterization Operator Units.

Compare all that to the Geforce GTX 1080 Ti, which comes with a clock speed of 1480 MHz and a GDDR5X memory speed of 1376 MHz. It also makes use of a 352-bit bus, and uses a 16 nm design. It is comprised of 3584 SPUs, 224 Texture Address Units, and 88 ROPs.

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Specifications

Memory Bandwidth: Memory bandwidth is the max amount of information (in units of MB per second) that can be transported across the external memory interface in one second. The number is worked out by multiplying the card's interface width by its memory clock speed. In the case of DDR type memory, it should be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the bandwidth is, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, HDR and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum number of texture map elements (texels) that can be applied in one second. This figure is worked out by multiplying the total texture units of the card by the core clock 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 per second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels that the graphics card can possibly write to its local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is calculated by multiplying the amount of colour ROPs by the the core speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - aka Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel rate also depends on quite a few other factors, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the maximum fill rate.