GeForce 9600 GSO 768MB vs GeForce RTX 4080

Intro

Compare all of that to the GeForce RTX 4080, which has clock speeds of 2205 MHz on the GPU, and 1400 MHz on the 16384 MB of GDDR6X RAM. It features 9728 SPUs along with 304 Texture Address Units and 112 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce 9600 GSO 768MB		84 Watts
GeForce RTX 4080		320 Watts
	Difference: 236 Watts (281%)

Memory Bandwidth

The GeForce RTX 4080 should theoretically be quite a bit faster than the GeForce 9600 GSO 768MB in general. (explain)

GeForce RTX 4080		734003 MB/sec
GeForce 9600 GSO 768MB		38400 MB/sec
	Difference: 695603 (1811%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce RTX 4080 should be a lot (about 2439%) more effective at AF than the GeForce 9600 GSO 768MB. (explain)

GeForce RTX 4080		670320 Mtexels/sec
GeForce 9600 GSO 768MB		26400 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 643920 (2439%)

Pixel Rate

If using a high screen resolution is important to you, then the GeForce RTX 4080 is superior to the GeForce 9600 GSO 768MB, by a large margin. (explain)

GeForce RTX 4080		246960 Mpixels/sec
GeForce 9600 GSO 768MB		6600 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 240360 (3642%)

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 data (in units of MB per second) that can be moved past the external memory interface in a second. It is worked out by multiplying the card's interface width by its memory speed. If the card has DDR memory, the result should be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the 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 in one second. This number is calculated 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 in one second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels that the graphics card could possibly record to the local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is worked out by multiplying the amount of Raster Operations Pipelines by the clock speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also called Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel rate also depends on many other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the maximum fill rate.