GeForce 9600 GSO 768MB vs GeForce RTX 3090

Intro

Compare all that to the GeForce RTX 3090, which comes with clock speeds of 1395 MHz on the GPU, and 1219 MHz on the 24576 MB of GDDR6X RAM. It features 10496 SPUs as well as 328 Texture Address Units and 112 Rasterization Operator Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce 9600 GSO 768MB		84 Watts
GeForce RTX 3090		350 Watts
	Difference: 266 Watts (317%)

Memory Bandwidth

The GeForce RTX 3090 should in theory be a lot faster than the GeForce 9600 GSO 768MB in general. (explain)

GeForce RTX 3090		958668 MB/sec
GeForce 9600 GSO 768MB		38400 MB/sec
	Difference: 920268 (2397%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce RTX 3090 is a lot (approximately 1633%) better at anisotropic filtering than the GeForce 9600 GSO 768MB. (explain)

GeForce RTX 3090		457560 Mtexels/sec
GeForce 9600 GSO 768MB		26400 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 431160 (1633%)

Pixel Rate

If running with lots of anti-aliasing is important to you, then the GeForce RTX 3090 is a better choice, by far. (explain)

GeForce RTX 3090		156240 Mpixels/sec
GeForce 9600 GSO 768MB		6600 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 149640 (2267%)

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 data (in units of megabytes per second) that can be transported past the external memory interface in a second. It is worked out by multiplying the card's interface width by its memory clock speed. If the card has DDR type RAM, the result should be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the card's memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, HDR and higher screen resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum number of texture map elements (texels) that are processed in one second. This number is calculated by multiplying the total texture units by the core speed of the chip. The higher this number, the better the video card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels in one second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels the graphics card can possibly write to its local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is worked out by multiplying the amount of ROPs by the the core clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also sometimes called Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel rate also depends on lots of other factors, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the max fill rate.