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GeForce 9600 GSO 384MB vs GeForce GT 440 1.5GB
IntroThe GeForce 9600 GSO 384MB has a clock frequency of 550 MHz and a GDDR3 memory speed of 800 MHz. It also uses a 192-bit memory bus, and uses a 65 nm design. It is made up of 96 SPUs, 48 TAUs, and 12 ROPs.Compare all of that to the GeForce GT 440 1.5GB, which uses a 40 nm design. nVidia has clocked the core frequency at 594 MHz. The GDDR3 RAM works at a speed of 900 MHz on this specific model. It features 144 SPUs along with 24 Texture Address Units and 24 ROPs.
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Power Usage and Theoretical BenchmarksPower Consumption (Max TDP)
Memory BandwidthPerformance-wise, the GeForce GT 440 1.5GB should in theory be just a bit better than the GeForce 9600 GSO 384MB in general. (explain)
Texel RateThe GeForce 9600 GSO 384MB should be a lot (approximately 85%) more effective at anisotropic filtering than the GeForce GT 440 1.5GB. (explain)
Pixel RateIf running with lots of anti-aliasing is important to you, then the GeForce GT 440 1.5GB is the winner, by far. (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 megabytes per second) that can be moved over the external memory interface in a second. It is worked out by multiplying the card's interface width by its memory clock speed. If the card has DDR RAM, it must be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, High Dynamic Range and higher screen resolutions. Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum amount of texture map elements (texels) that are applied per second. This is worked out by multiplying the total texture units of the card by the core clock speed of the chip. The higher the texel rate, the better the graphics card will be at texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels in a second. Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels that the graphics chip can possibly write to its local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is worked out by multiplying the amount of colour ROPs by the the core speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also called Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel fill rate is also dependant on many other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - 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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