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GeForce 9600 GSO ASUS 512 vs Radeon HD 6450 (OEM)

Intro

The GeForce 9600 GSO ASUS 512 makes use of a 65 nm design. nVidia has set the core speed at 550 MHz. The DDR2 RAM runs at a speed of 500 MHz on this specific model. It features 96 SPUs along with 48 TAUs and 12 ROPs.

Compare all of that to the Radeon HD 6450 (OEM), which has a clock speed of 625 MHz and a GDDR3 memory speed of 800 MHz. It also makes use of a 64-bit memory bus, and makes use of a 40 nm design. It is made up of 160 SPUs, 8 Texture Address Units, and 4 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon HD 6450 (OEM) 31 Watts
GeForce 9600 GSO ASUS 512 84 Watts
Difference: 53 Watts (171%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the GeForce 9600 GSO ASUS 512 should be 25% faster than the Radeon HD 6450 (OEM) overall, because of its higher data rate. (explain)

GeForce 9600 GSO ASUS 512 16000 MB/sec
Radeon HD 6450 (OEM) 12800 MB/sec
Difference: 3200 (25%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce 9600 GSO ASUS 512 should be quite a bit (approximately 428%) better at texture filtering than the Radeon HD 6450 (OEM). (explain)

GeForce 9600 GSO ASUS 512 26400 Mtexels/sec
Radeon HD 6450 (OEM) 5000 Mtexels/sec
Difference: 21400 (428%)

Pixel Rate

The GeForce 9600 GSO ASUS 512 is a lot (approximately 164%) more effective at full screen anti-aliasing than the Radeon HD 6450 (OEM), and also should be able to handle higher resolutions while still performing well. (explain)

GeForce 9600 GSO ASUS 512 6600 Mpixels/sec
Radeon HD 6450 (OEM) 2500 Mpixels/sec
Difference: 4100 (164%)

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.

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Specifications

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Model GeForce 9600 GSO ASUS 512 Radeon HD 6450 (OEM)
Manufacturer nVidia AMD
Year September 2008 February 2011
Code Name G92 Caicos
Memory 512 MB 512 MB
Core Speed 550 MHz 625 MHz
Memory Speed 1000 MHz 1600 MHz
Power (Max TDP) 84 watts 31 watts
Bandwidth 16000 MB/sec 12800 MB/sec
Texel Rate 26400 Mtexels/sec 5000 Mtexels/sec
Pixel Rate 6600 Mpixels/sec 2500 Mpixels/sec
Unified Shaders 96 160
Texture Mapping Units 48 8
Render Output Units 12 4
Bus Type DDR2 GDDR3
Bus Width 128-bit 64-bit
Fab Process 65 nm 40 nm
Transistors 754 million 370 million
Bus PCIe x16 2.0 PCIe 2.1 x16
DirectX Version DirectX 10 DirectX 11
OpenGL Version OpenGL 3.0 OpenGL 4.1

Memory Bandwidth: Memory bandwidth is the maximum amount of information (in units of MB per second) that can be moved over the external memory interface in one second. It's calculated by multiplying the card's interface width by its memory speed. If it uses DDR memory, it should be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the memory bandwidth, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, HDR and higher screen resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum number of texture map elements (texels) that are applied in one second. This is worked out by multiplying the total amount of texture units of the card by the core 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 applied in one second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels that the graphics chip can possibly record to its local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is worked out by multiplying the amount of Render Output Units 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 rate also depends on lots of other factors, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the max fill rate.

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