GeForce 9600 GSO ASUS 512 vs Radeon HD 6670 (OEM)

Intro

Compare that to the Radeon HD 6670 (OEM), which has GPU core speed of 800 MHz, and 512 MB of GDDR5 RAM set to run at 1000 MHz through a 128-bit bus. It also is comprised of 480 SPUs, 24 TAUs, and 8 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon HD 6670 (OEM)		63 Watts
GeForce 9600 GSO ASUS 512		84 Watts
	Difference: 21 Watts (33%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the Radeon HD 6670 (OEM) should be quite a bit faster than the GeForce 9600 GSO ASUS 512 overall. (explain)

Radeon HD 6670 (OEM)		64000 MB/sec
GeForce 9600 GSO ASUS 512		16000 MB/sec
	Difference: 48000 (300%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce 9600 GSO ASUS 512 should be much (approximately 38%) better at texture filtering than the Radeon HD 6670 (OEM). (explain)

GeForce 9600 GSO ASUS 512		26400 Mtexels/sec
Radeon HD 6670 (OEM)		19200 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 7200 (38%)

Pixel Rate

The GeForce 9600 GSO ASUS 512 should be a bit (approximately 3%) better at full screen anti-aliasing than the Radeon HD 6670 (OEM), and also will be able to handle higher resolutions without losing too much performance. (explain)

GeForce 9600 GSO ASUS 512		6600 Mpixels/sec
Radeon HD 6670 (OEM)		6400 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 200 (3%)

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 transferred past the external memory interface in one second. It's calculated by multiplying the card's bus width by the speed of its memory. If the card has DDR type RAM, it must be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the bandwidth is, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, HDR and higher screen resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels the video card can possibly write to the local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is worked out by multiplying the amount of colour ROPs by the clock speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - sometimes also referred to as Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel output rate is also dependant on many other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the maximum fill rate.