GeForce 8300 GS (OEM) vs GeForce 9600 GT 1GB

Intro

Compare those specs to the GeForce 9600 GT 1GB, which comes with a GPU core clock speed of 650 MHz, and 1024 MB of GDDR3 memory set to run at 900 MHz through a 256-bit bus. It also is made up of 64 SPUs, 32 TAUs, and 16 Raster Operation Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce 8300 GS (OEM)		40 Watts
GeForce 9600 GT 1GB		95 Watts
	Difference: 55 Watts (138%)

Memory Bandwidth

Performance-wise, the GeForce 9600 GT 1GB should theoretically be much better than the GeForce 8300 GS (OEM) overall. (explain)

GeForce 9600 GT 1GB		57600 MB/sec
GeForce 8300 GS (OEM)		6400 MB/sec
	Difference: 51200 (800%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce 9600 GT 1GB should be much (approximately 1056%) more effective at texture filtering than the GeForce 8300 GS (OEM). (explain)

GeForce 9600 GT 1GB		20800 Mtexels/sec
GeForce 8300 GS (OEM)		1800 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 19000 (1056%)

Pixel Rate

If using a high resolution is important to you, then the GeForce 9600 GT 1GB is superior to the GeForce 8300 GS (OEM), and very much so. (explain)

GeForce 9600 GT 1GB		10400 Mpixels/sec
GeForce 8300 GS (OEM)		900 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 9500 (1056%)

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 largest amount of information (in units of megabytes per second) that can be transferred over the external memory interface within a second. It's worked out by multiplying the interface width by its memory speed. If it uses DDR type RAM, it must be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, HDR and high resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels that the graphics chip can possibly write to the local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is calculated by multiplying the amount of Render Output Units by the the core clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also called Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel output 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 reach the maximum fill rate.