GeForce 9600 GSO 384MB vs GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER

Intro

Compare those specs to the GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER, which uses a 12 nm design. nVidia has clocked the core frequency at 1650 MHz. The GDDR6 RAM works at a frequency of 1937 MHz on this particular card. It features 3072 SPUs along with 192 Texture Address Units and 64 Rasterization Operator Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce 9600 GSO 384MB		84 Watts
GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER		250 Watts
	Difference: 166 Watts (198%)

Memory Bandwidth

In theory, the GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER should perform quite a bit faster than the GeForce 9600 GSO 384MB in general. (explain)

GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER		507904 MB/sec
GeForce 9600 GSO 384MB		38400 MB/sec
	Difference: 469504 (1223%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER should be quite a bit (approximately 1100%) more effective at anisotropic filtering than the GeForce 9600 GSO 384MB. (explain)

GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER		316800 Mtexels/sec
GeForce 9600 GSO 384MB		26400 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 290400 (1100%)

Pixel Rate

The GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER will be a lot (approximately 1500%) more effective at AA than the GeForce 9600 GSO 384MB, and able to handle higher screen resolutions better. (explain)

GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER		105600 Mpixels/sec
GeForce 9600 GSO 384MB		6600 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 99000 (1500%)

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 data (measured in MB per second) that can be transferred over the external memory interface within a second. The number is calculated by multiplying the card's bus width by its memory clock speed. In the case of DDR type RAM, the result should be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the bandwidth is, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, High Dynamic Range and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum number of texture map elements (texels) that are processed in one 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 texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels in one second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels the video card can possibly write to the local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is worked out by multiplying the amount of Raster Operations Pipelines by the the core speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - sometimes also referred to as Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel rate is also dependant on many other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the max fill rate.