GeForce 9600 GSO 1.5GB vs Radeon HD 6450 (OEM)

Intro

Compare all that to the Radeon HD 6450 (OEM), which has GPU clock speed of 625 MHz, and 512 MB of GDDR3 memory running at 800 MHz through a 64-bit bus. It also is made up of 160 SPUs, 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 1.5GB		84 Watts
	Difference: 53 Watts (171%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the GeForce 9600 GSO 1.5GB should perform quite a bit faster than the Radeon HD 6450 (OEM) in general. (explain)

GeForce 9600 GSO 1.5GB		38400 MB/sec
Radeon HD 6450 (OEM)		12800 MB/sec
	Difference: 25600 (200%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce 9600 GSO 1.5GB should be a lot (more or less 428%) faster with regards to AF than the Radeon HD 6450 (OEM). (explain)

GeForce 9600 GSO 1.5GB		26400 Mtexels/sec
Radeon HD 6450 (OEM)		5000 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 21400 (428%)

Pixel Rate

If using a high resolution is important to you, then the GeForce 9600 GSO 1.5GB is the winner, and very much so. (explain)

GeForce 9600 GSO 1.5GB		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 maximum amount of data (counted in megabytes per second) that can be moved over the external memory interface within a second. It's calculated by multiplying the interface width by the speed of its memory. In the case of DDR type RAM, it must be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the memory bandwidth, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, High Dynamic Range and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum number of texture map elements (texels) that can be applied in one second. This figure is worked out by multiplying the total texture units by the core clock speed of the chip. The better this number, the better the graphics card will be at texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels applied per second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels that the graphics card could possibly record to its local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is calculated by multiplying the amount of ROPs by the the card's clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also sometimes called Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel fill rate also depends on quite a few other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the max fill rate.