GeForce 9600 GSO ASUS 512 vs GeForce RTX 3080 Ti

Intro

Compare all that to the GeForce RTX 3080 Ti, which comes with a clock speed of 1365 MHz and a GDDR6X memory speed of 1188 MHz. It also features a 384-bit memory bus, and makes use of a 8 nm design. It is made up of 10240 SPUs, 320 Texture Address Units, and 112 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce 9600 GSO ASUS 512		84 Watts
GeForce RTX 3080 Ti		350 Watts
	Difference: 266 Watts (317%)

Memory Bandwidth

The GeForce RTX 3080 Ti, in theory, should be quite a bit faster than the GeForce 9600 GSO ASUS 512 overall. (explain)

GeForce RTX 3080 Ti		934297 MB/sec
GeForce 9600 GSO ASUS 512		16000 MB/sec
	Difference: 918297 (5739%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce RTX 3080 Ti should be a lot (approximately 1555%) faster with regards to texture filtering than the GeForce 9600 GSO ASUS 512. (explain)

GeForce RTX 3080 Ti		436800 Mtexels/sec
GeForce 9600 GSO ASUS 512		26400 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 410400 (1555%)

Pixel Rate

The GeForce RTX 3080 Ti is much (more or less 2216%) better at FSAA than the GeForce 9600 GSO ASUS 512, and also should be capable of handling higher resolutions better. (explain)

GeForce RTX 3080 Ti		152880 Mpixels/sec
GeForce 9600 GSO ASUS 512		6600 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 146280 (2216%)

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 transferred past the external memory interface within a second. It is worked out by multiplying the card's bus width by its memory clock speed. If the card has DDR type memory, it should be multiplied by 2 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 anti-aliasing, High Dynamic Range and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum number of texture map elements (texels) that are applied per second. This figure is worked out by multiplying the total number of texture units 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 applied per second.

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