GeForce 9600 GT 1GB vs Radeon HD 6570 (OEM) 2GB

Intro

The GeForce 9600 GT 1GB features a core clock frequency of 650 MHz and a GDDR3 memory frequency of 900 MHz. It also makes use of a 256-bit bus, and uses a 65/55 nm design. It features 64 SPUs, 32 Texture Address Units, and 16 Raster Operation Units.

Compare those specifications to the Radeon HD 6570 (OEM) 2GB, which uses a 40 nm design. ATi has set the core speed at 650 MHz. The GDDR5 RAM works at a speed of 1000 MHz on this particular card. It features 480 SPUs as well as 24 Texture Address Units and 8 ROPs.

Price Comparison

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Specifications

Model	GeForce 9600 GT 1GB	Radeon HD 6570 (OEM) 2GB
Manufacturer	nVidia	ATi
Year	Feb 2008	February 2011
Code Name	G94a/b	Turks
Fab Process	65/55 nm	40 nm
Bus	PCIe x16 2.0	PCIe 2.1 x16
Memory	1024 MB	1024 MB
Core Speed	650 MHz	650 MHz
Shader Speed	1625 MHz	(N/A) MHz
Memory Speed	900 MHz	1000 MHz
Unified Shaders	64	480
Texture Mapping Units	32	24
Render Output Units	16	8
Bus Type	GDDR3	GDDR5
Bus Width	256-bit	128-bit
DirectX Version	DirectX 10	DirectX 11
OpenGL Version	OpenGL 3.0	OpenGL 4.1
Power (Max TDP)	95 watts	50 watts
Shader Model	4.0	5.0
Bandwidth	57600 MB/sec	64000 MB/sec
Texel Rate	20800 Mtexels/sec	15600 Mtexels/sec
Pixel Rate	10400 Mpixels/sec	5200 Mpixels/sec

Memory Bandwidth: Memory bandwidth is the max amount of information (counted in megabytes per second) that can be moved past the external memory interface within a second. It's calculated by multiplying the bus width by its memory clock speed. In the case of DDR type RAM, it must be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the bandwidth is, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, 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 worked out by multiplying the total texture units of the card by the core speed of the chip. The higher the texel rate, the better the card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels applied in one second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels the graphics card could possibly write to its local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is calculated by multiplying the amount of ROPs by the the card's 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 rate also depends on quite a few other factors, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the maximum fill rate.