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GeForce 9600 GSO 384MB vs Radeon HD 7770

Intro

The GeForce 9600 GSO 384MB makes use of a 65 nm design. nVidia has set the core speed at 550 MHz. The GDDR3 memory works at a frequency of 800 MHz on this specific card. It features 96 SPUs along with 48 Texture Address Units and 12 ROPs.

Compare those specifications to the Radeon HD 7770, which comes with clock speeds of 1000 MHz on the GPU, and 1125 MHz on the 1024 MB of GDDR5 memory. It features 640 SPUs along with 40 TAUs and 16 Rasterization Operator Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon HD 7770 80 Watts
GeForce 9600 GSO 384MB 84 Watts
Difference: 4 Watts (5%)

Memory Bandwidth

In theory, the Radeon HD 7770 will be 88% faster than the GeForce 9600 GSO 384MB in general, due to its greater data rate. (explain)

Radeon HD 7770 72000 MB/sec
GeForce 9600 GSO 384MB 38400 MB/sec
Difference: 33600 (88%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon HD 7770 will be quite a bit (more or less 52%) more effective at AF than the GeForce 9600 GSO 384MB. (explain)

Radeon HD 7770 40000 Mtexels/sec
GeForce 9600 GSO 384MB 26400 Mtexels/sec
Difference: 13600 (52%)

Pixel Rate

If using high levels of AA is important to you, then the Radeon HD 7770 is a better choice, by a large margin. (explain)

Radeon HD 7770 16000 Mpixels/sec
GeForce 9600 GSO 384MB 6600 Mpixels/sec
Difference: 9400 (142%)

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

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Model GeForce 9600 GSO 384MB Radeon HD 7770
Manufacturer nVidia AMD
Year May 2008 February 2012
Code Name G92 Cape Verde XT
Memory 384 MB 1024 MB
Core Speed 550 MHz 1000 MHz
Memory Speed 1600 MHz 4500 MHz
Power (Max TDP) 84 watts 80 watts
Bandwidth 38400 MB/sec 72000 MB/sec
Texel Rate 26400 Mtexels/sec 40000 Mtexels/sec
Pixel Rate 6600 Mpixels/sec 16000 Mpixels/sec
Unified Shaders 96 640
Texture Mapping Units 48 40
Render Output Units 12 16
Bus Type GDDR3 GDDR5
Bus Width 192-bit 128-bit
Fab Process 65 nm 28 nm
Transistors 754 million 1500 million
Bus PCIe x16 2.0 PCIe 3.0 x16
DirectX Version DirectX 10 DirectX 11.1
OpenGL Version OpenGL 3.0 OpenGL 4.2

Memory Bandwidth: Memory bandwidth is the maximum amount of data (measured in MB per second) that can be moved over the external memory interface in a second. The number is worked out by multiplying the bus width by the speed of its memory. In the case of DDR type memory, it must be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, HDR and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum amount of texture map elements (texels) that can be processed per second. This is calculated by multiplying the total amount of texture units by the core speed of the chip. The better 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 amount of pixels that the graphics card could possibly record to its local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is worked out by multiplying the number of colour ROPs by the the core 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 rate is also dependant on many other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the max fill rate.

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GeForce 9600 GSO 384MB

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