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GeForce 9600 GSO 1.5GB vs GeForce GT 440 3GB
IntroThe GeForce 9600 GSO 1.5GB makes use of a 65 nm design. nVidia has clocked the core speed at 550 MHz. The GDDR3 RAM is set to run at a speed of 800 MHz on this particular model. It features 96 SPUs as well as 48 Texture Address Units and 12 Rasterization Operator Units.Compare all of that to the GeForce GT 440 3GB, which features GPU clock speed of 594 MHz, and 3072 MB of GDDR3 RAM running at 900 MHz through a 192-bit bus. It also is comprised of 144 Stream Processors, 24 TAUs, and 24 ROPs.
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Power Usage and Theoretical BenchmarksPower Consumption (Max TDP)
Memory BandwidthTheoretically speaking, the GeForce GT 440 3GB should perform a small bit faster than the GeForce 9600 GSO 1.5GB overall. (explain)
Texel RateThe GeForce 9600 GSO 1.5GB will be quite a bit (approximately 85%) more effective at texture filtering than the GeForce GT 440 3GB. (explain)
Pixel RateThe GeForce GT 440 3GB will be a lot (more or less 116%) faster with regards to anti-aliasing than the GeForce 9600 GSO 1.5GB, and able to handle higher screen resolutions without slowing down too much. (explain)
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
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Memory Bandwidth: Bandwidth is the maximum amount of data (in units of MB per second) that can be moved past the external memory interface within a second. It's calculated by multiplying the bus width by the speed of its memory. In the case of DDR RAM, it should be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the card's memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, HDR and high resolutions. Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum texture map elements (texels) that can be processed in one second. This is calculated by multiplying the total texture units by the core speed of the chip. The higher the texel rate, the better the 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 most pixels that the graphics card could possibly write to its local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is worked out by multiplying the amount of Raster Operations Pipelines by the the core clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - aka Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). 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 ability to get to the maximum fill rate.
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Please note that the price comparisons are based on search keywords - sometimes it might show cards with very similar names that are not exactly the same as the one chosen in the comparison. We do try to filter out the wrong results as best we can, though.
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