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GeForce 9600 GT 1GB vs GeForce GT 240 GDDR5 1GB
IntroThe GeForce 9600 GT 1GB comes with a GPU clock speed of 650 MHz, and the 1024 MB of GDDR3 memory runs at 900 MHz through a 256-bit bus. It also is comprised of 64 SPUs, 32 Texture Address Units, and 16 ROPs.Compare that to the GeForce GT 240 GDDR5 1GB, which uses a 40 nm design. nVidia has clocked the core frequency at 550 MHz. The GDDR5 memory runs at a frequency of 850 MHz on this particular card. It features 96 SPUs as well as 32 Texture Address Units and 8 ROPs.
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Power Usage and Theoretical BenchmarksPower Consumption (Max TDP)
Memory BandwidthTheoretically speaking, the GeForce 9600 GT 1GB is 6% quicker than the GeForce GT 240 GDDR5 1GB in general, because of its higher data rate. (explain)
Texel RateThe GeForce 9600 GT 1GB will be just a bit (about 18%) faster with regards to anisotropic filtering than the GeForce GT 240 GDDR5 1GB. (explain)
Pixel RateIf running with high levels of AA is important to you, then the GeForce 9600 GT 1GB is superior to the GeForce GT 240 GDDR5 1GB, by a large margin. (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 largest amount of data (measured in MB per second) that can be transferred past the external memory interface in one second. It is worked out by multiplying the bus width by its memory clock speed. If it uses DDR RAM, it should be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the memory bandwidth, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, HDR and higher screen resolutions. Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum number of texture map elements (texels) that can be applied per second. This number is worked out by multiplying the total amount 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 most pixels the video card could possibly record to its local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is worked out by multiplying the number 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 output rate is also dependant on lots of other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the max 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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