GeForce 9600 GSO 1.5GB vs Radeon HD 6450 (OEM) 1GB

Intro

Compare all of that to the Radeon HD 6450 (OEM) 1GB, which features a clock frequency of 750 MHz and a GDDR5 memory frequency of 900 MHz. It also makes use of a 64-bit bus, and uses a 40 nm design. It features 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) 1GB		31 Watts
GeForce 9600 GSO 1.5GB		84 Watts
	Difference: 53 Watts (171%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically, the GeForce 9600 GSO 1.5GB should be a lot faster than the Radeon HD 6450 (OEM) 1GB in general. (explain)

GeForce 9600 GSO 1.5GB		38400 MB/sec
Radeon HD 6450 (OEM) 1GB		28800 MB/sec
	Difference: 9600 (33%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce 9600 GSO 1.5GB is quite a bit (approximately 340%) faster with regards to anisotropic filtering than the Radeon HD 6450 (OEM) 1GB. (explain)

GeForce 9600 GSO 1.5GB		26400 Mtexels/sec
Radeon HD 6450 (OEM) 1GB		6000 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 20400 (340%)

Pixel Rate

If running with a high resolution is important to you, then the GeForce 9600 GSO 1.5GB is the winner, by far. (explain)

GeForce 9600 GSO 1.5GB		6600 Mpixels/sec
Radeon HD 6450 (OEM) 1GB		3000 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 3600 (120%)

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: Bandwidth is the largest amount of data (measured in MB per second) that can be transported past the external memory interface in one second. It is calculated by multiplying the card's interface width by its memory clock speed. In the case of DDR type RAM, the result should be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the card's 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 amount of texture map elements (texels) that are applied per second. This figure is worked out by multiplying the total number of texture units of the card by the core 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 processed in one second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels the graphics card could possibly record to its local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is calculated by multiplying the amount of Raster Operations Pipelines by the the core clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also sometimes called 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, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the max fill rate.