GeForce 9600 GSO 768MB vs Radeon HD 7750

Intro

Compare all that to the Radeon HD 7750, which features GPU core speed of 800 MHz, and 1024 MB of GDDR5 memory running at 1125 MHz through a 128-bit bus. It also is made up of 512 SPUs, 32 Texture Address Units, and 16 Raster Operation Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon HD 7750		55 Watts
GeForce 9600 GSO 768MB		84 Watts
	Difference: 29 Watts (53%)

Memory Bandwidth

Performance-wise, the Radeon HD 7750 should in theory be a lot superior to the GeForce 9600 GSO 768MB in general. (explain)

Radeon HD 7750		72000 MB/sec
GeForce 9600 GSO 768MB		38400 MB/sec
	Difference: 33600 (88%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce 9600 GSO 768MB should be a little bit (more or less 3%) better at texture filtering than the Radeon HD 7750. (explain)

GeForce 9600 GSO 768MB		26400 Mtexels/sec
Radeon HD 7750		25600 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 800 (3%)

Pixel Rate

If using a high screen resolution is important to you, then the Radeon HD 7750 is superior to the GeForce 9600 GSO 768MB, by a large margin. (explain)

Radeon HD 7750		12800 Mpixels/sec
GeForce 9600 GSO 768MB		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 (measured in MB per second) that can be moved across the external memory interface in one second. The number is calculated by multiplying the card's bus width by the speed of its memory. If it uses DDR RAM, it should 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 AA, High Dynamic Range and higher screen resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum amount of texture map elements (texels) that can be processed in one second. This figure is calculated by multiplying the total amount of texture units of the card by the core speed of the chip. The better this number, the better the 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 that the graphics chip can possibly write to its local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is calculated by multiplying the number of Raster Operations Pipelines by the the core clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also called Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel fill rate also depends on lots of other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the max fill rate.