GeForce 9600 GT 1GB vs GeForce GTX 1660 Ti

Intro

Compare all that to the GeForce GTX 1660 Ti, which features GPU core speed of 1500 MHz, and 6144 MB of GDDR6 memory running at 1500 MHz through a 192-bit bus. It also is made up of 1536 SPUs, 96 Texture Address Units, and 48 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce 9600 GT 1GB		95 Watts
GeForce GTX 1660 Ti		120 Watts
	Difference: 25 Watts (26%)

Memory Bandwidth

As far as performance goes, the GeForce GTX 1660 Ti should in theory be much better than the GeForce 9600 GT 1GB in general. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1660 Ti		294912 MB/sec
GeForce 9600 GT 1GB		57600 MB/sec
	Difference: 237312 (412%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 1660 Ti is much (more or less 592%) better at anisotropic filtering than the GeForce 9600 GT 1GB. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1660 Ti		144000 Mtexels/sec
GeForce 9600 GT 1GB		20800 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 123200 (592%)

Pixel Rate

The GeForce GTX 1660 Ti will be a lot (about 592%) more effective at anti-aliasing than the GeForce 9600 GT 1GB, and capable of handling higher screen resolutions while still performing well. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1660 Ti		72000 Mpixels/sec
GeForce 9600 GT 1GB		10400 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 61600 (592%)

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 largest amount of information (in units of megabytes per second) that can be moved over the external memory interface in a second. The number is worked out by multiplying the card's interface width by its memory clock speed. If the card has DDR RAM, it must be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the memory bandwidth, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, High Dynamic Range and higher screen resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum number of texture map elements (texels) that can be applied per second. This figure is worked out by multiplying the total number of 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 handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels processed in one second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels that the graphics card could possibly write to the local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is calculated by multiplying the number of Raster Operations Pipelines by the the card's clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - sometimes also referred to as Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel fill rate also depends on quite a few other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the max fill rate.