GeForce 9600 GSO 512MB vs Radeon HD 7750

Intro

Compare those specifications to the Radeon HD 7750, which features a clock frequency of 800 MHz and a GDDR5 memory frequency of 1125 MHz. It also makes use of a 128-bit memory bus, and makes use of a 28 nm design. It features 512 SPUs, 32 TAUs, and 16 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon HD 7750		55 Watts
GeForce 9600 GSO 512MB		90 Watts
	Difference: 35 Watts (64%)

Memory Bandwidth

The Radeon HD 7750 should in theory be quite a bit faster than the GeForce 9600 GSO 512MB overall. (explain)

Radeon HD 7750		72000 MB/sec
GeForce 9600 GSO 512MB		57600 MB/sec
	Difference: 14400 (25%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce 9600 GSO 512MB will be a lot (about 22%) faster with regards to texture filtering than the Radeon HD 7750. (explain)

GeForce 9600 GSO 512MB		31200 Mtexels/sec
Radeon HD 7750		25600 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 5600 (22%)

Pixel Rate

The Radeon HD 7750 will be a lot (more or less 23%) better at full screen anti-aliasing than the GeForce 9600 GSO 512MB, and also able to handle higher screen resolutions without slowing down too much. (explain)

Radeon HD 7750		12800 Mpixels/sec
GeForce 9600 GSO 512MB		10400 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 2400 (23%)

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.

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Specifications

Memory Bandwidth: Memory bandwidth is the max amount of information (in units of megabytes per second) that can be transferred over the external memory interface in a second. It's calculated by multiplying the bus width by the speed of its memory. If it uses DDR type memory, it must be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the bandwidth is, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, HDR 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 number is worked out by multiplying the total number of texture units of the card by the core clock speed of the chip. The higher the texel rate, the better the video card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels in a second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels that the graphics chip could possibly write to the local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is calculated by multiplying the amount of ROPs by the the core clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also sometimes called Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel fill rate also depends on quite a few other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the maximum fill rate.