GeForce 9600 GSO 768MB vs GeForce RTX 3070 Ti

Intro

Compare those specifications to the GeForce RTX 3070 Ti, which comes with a clock frequency of 1575 MHz and a GDDR6X memory frequency of 1188 MHz. It also uses a 256-bit memory bus, and makes use of a 8 nm design. It is made up of 6144 SPUs, 192 Texture Address Units, and 96 Raster Operation Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce 9600 GSO 768MB		84 Watts
GeForce RTX 3070 Ti		290 Watts
	Difference: 206 Watts (245%)

Memory Bandwidth

As far as performance goes, the GeForce RTX 3070 Ti should in theory be quite a bit superior to the GeForce 9600 GSO 768MB in general. (explain)

GeForce RTX 3070 Ti		622899 MB/sec
GeForce 9600 GSO 768MB		38400 MB/sec
	Difference: 584499 (1522%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce RTX 3070 Ti is much (approximately 1045%) more effective at texture filtering than the GeForce 9600 GSO 768MB. (explain)

GeForce RTX 3070 Ti		302400 Mtexels/sec
GeForce 9600 GSO 768MB		26400 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 276000 (1045%)

Pixel Rate

If using a high screen resolution is important to you, then the GeForce RTX 3070 Ti is the winner, by far. (explain)

GeForce RTX 3070 Ti		151200 Mpixels/sec
GeForce 9600 GSO 768MB		6600 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 144600 (2191%)

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 MB per second) that can be transported across the external memory interface within a second. The number is calculated by multiplying the bus width by its memory speed. If the card has DDR RAM, the result should be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. 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 amount of texture map elements (texels) that are processed per second. This number is calculated by multiplying the total texture units of the card by the core speed of the chip. The higher this number, the better the video card will be at texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels processed in a second.

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