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

Intro

The GeForce 9600 GSO 512MB has a core clock frequency of 650 MHz and a GDDR3 memory speed of 900 MHz. It also uses a 256-bit memory bus, and makes use of a 65/55 nm design. It is made up of 96 SPUs, 48 TAUs, and 16 Raster Operation Units.

Compare all of that to the Radeon HD 6670 (OEM), which features core clock speeds of 800 MHz on the GPU, and 1000 MHz on the 512 MB of GDDR5 memory. It features 480 SPUs as well as 24 Texture Address Units and 8 ROPs.

Price Comparison

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Radeon HD 6670 (OEM) Amazon.com Other US-based stores Amazon.co.uk Amazon.de Amazon.fr

Specifications

Model	GeForce 9600 GSO 512MB	Radeon HD 6670 (OEM)
Manufacturer	nVidia	ATi
Year	October 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	512 MB	512 MB
Core Speed	650 MHz	800 MHz
Shader Speed	1625 MHz	(N/A) MHz
Memory Speed	900 MHz	1000 MHz
Unified Shaders	96	480
Texture Mapping Units	48	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)	90 watts	63 watts
Shader Model	4.0	5.0
Bandwidth	57600 MB/sec	64000 MB/sec
Texel Rate	31200 Mtexels/sec	19200 Mtexels/sec
Pixel Rate	10400 Mpixels/sec	6400 Mpixels/sec

Memory Bandwidth: Memory bandwidth is the max amount of information (in units of MB per second) that can be moved across the external memory interface within a second. It's calculated by multiplying the card's bus width by the speed of its memory. If it uses DDR memory, it should be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the memory bandwidth, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, HDR and high resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels the graphics card could possibly write to the local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is worked out by multiplying the number of Render Output Units by the clock speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - aka Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel fill rate is also dependant on lots of other factors, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the maximum fill rate.