GeForce 9600 GSO 384MB vs Radeon HD 7750

Intro

Compare those specs to the Radeon HD 7750, which features a clock speed of 800 MHz and a GDDR5 memory speed of 1125 MHz. It also uses a 128-bit memory bus, and makes use of a 28 nm design. It is made up of 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 384MB		84 Watts
	Difference: 29 Watts (53%)

Memory Bandwidth

The Radeon HD 7750 should in theory perform much faster than the GeForce 9600 GSO 384MB overall. (explain)

Radeon HD 7750		72000 MB/sec
GeForce 9600 GSO 384MB		38400 MB/sec
	Difference: 33600 (88%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce 9600 GSO 384MB is a little bit (more or less 3%) faster with regards to AF than the Radeon HD 7750. (explain)

GeForce 9600 GSO 384MB		26400 Mtexels/sec
Radeon HD 7750		25600 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 800 (3%)

Pixel Rate

If running with a high resolution is important to you, then the Radeon HD 7750 is a better choice, by a large margin. (explain)

Radeon HD 7750		12800 Mpixels/sec
GeForce 9600 GSO 384MB		6600 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 6200 (94%)

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: Memory bandwidth is the largest amount of data (in units of MB per second) that can be transferred past the external memory interface within a second. It is calculated by multiplying the interface width by the speed of its memory. In the case of DDR RAM, it should be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the memory bandwidth, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, High Dynamic Range and high resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels that the graphics card can possibly write to the local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is calculated by multiplying the amount of ROPs by the the core clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also called Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel rate also depends on many other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the maximum fill rate.