GeForce 9600 GSO 384MB vs Radeon HD 6450 (OEM)

Intro

Compare all of that to the Radeon HD 6450 (OEM), which comes with a GPU core clock speed of 625 MHz, and 512 MB of GDDR3 RAM running at 800 MHz through a 64-bit bus. It also features 160 Stream Processors, 8 TAUs, 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 384MB		84 Watts
	Difference: 53 Watts (171%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the GeForce 9600 GSO 384MB should be a lot faster than the Radeon HD 6450 (OEM) in general. (explain)

GeForce 9600 GSO 384MB		38400 MB/sec
Radeon HD 6450 (OEM)		12800 MB/sec
	Difference: 25600 (200%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce 9600 GSO 384MB should be quite a bit (more or less 428%) more effective at anisotropic filtering than the Radeon HD 6450 (OEM). (explain)

GeForce 9600 GSO 384MB		26400 Mtexels/sec
Radeon HD 6450 (OEM)		5000 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 21400 (428%)

Pixel Rate

If using high levels of AA is important to you, then the GeForce 9600 GSO 384MB is the winner, by far. (explain)

GeForce 9600 GSO 384MB		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.

Price Comparison

Specifications

Memory Bandwidth: Memory bandwidth is the max amount of data (measured in megabytes per second) that can be transported over the external memory interface in a second. It's worked out by multiplying the interface width by the speed of its memory. If it uses DDR type RAM, the result should be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the card's 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 can be applied in one second. This figure is calculated by multiplying the total amount of texture units of the card by the core clock speed of the chip. The better this number, the better the video card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels applied per second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels the video card could possibly record to the local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is calculated by multiplying the number of Render Output Units by the the core clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - sometimes also referred to as Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel output rate also depends on lots of other factors, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the maximum fill rate.