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GeForce 9600 GT 512MB vs Radeon R7 260X

Intro

The GeForce 9600 GT 512MB has a core clock frequency of 650 MHz and a GDDR3 memory frequency of 900 MHz. It also features a 256-bit bus, and makes use of a 65/55 nm design. It is made up of 64 SPUs, 32 TAUs, and 16 Raster Operation Units.

Compare those specs to the Radeon R7 260X, which uses a 28 nm design. AMD has set the core speed at 1100 MHz. The GDDR5 memory works at a frequency of 1625 MHz on this specific card. It features 896 SPUs along with 56 TAUs and 16 Rasterization Operator Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce 9600 GT 512MB 95 Watts
Radeon R7 260X 115 Watts
Difference: 20 Watts (21%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the Radeon R7 260X should be 81% faster than the GeForce 9600 GT 512MB in general, because of its greater bandwidth. (explain)

Radeon R7 260X 104000 MB/sec
GeForce 9600 GT 512MB 57600 MB/sec
Difference: 46400 (81%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon R7 260X should be a lot (approximately 196%) more effective at texture filtering than the GeForce 9600 GT 512MB. (explain)

Radeon R7 260X 61600 Mtexels/sec
GeForce 9600 GT 512MB 20800 Mtexels/sec
Difference: 40800 (196%)

Pixel Rate

The Radeon R7 260X should be quite a bit (more or less 69%) better at full screen anti-aliasing than the GeForce 9600 GT 512MB, and will be able to handle higher screen resolutions better. (explain)

Radeon R7 260X 17600 Mpixels/sec
GeForce 9600 GT 512MB 10400 Mpixels/sec
Difference: 7200 (69%)

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

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Specifications

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Model GeForce 9600 GT 512MB Radeon R7 260X
Manufacturer nVidia AMD
Year Feb 2008 October 2013
Code Name G94a/b Bonaire XTX
Memory 512 MB 2048 MB
Core Speed 650 MHz 1100 MHz
Memory Speed 1800 MHz 6500 MHz
Power (Max TDP) 95 watts 115 watts
Bandwidth 57600 MB/sec 104000 MB/sec
Texel Rate 20800 Mtexels/sec 61600 Mtexels/sec
Pixel Rate 10400 Mpixels/sec 17600 Mpixels/sec
Unified Shaders 64 896
Texture Mapping Units 32 56
Render Output Units 16 16
Bus Type GDDR3 GDDR5
Bus Width 256-bit 128-bit
Fab Process 65/55 nm 28 nm
Transistors 505 million 2080 million
Bus PCIe x16 2.0 PCIe 3.0 x16
DirectX Version DirectX 10 DirectX 11.2
OpenGL Version OpenGL 3.0 OpenGL 4.3

Memory Bandwidth: Memory bandwidth is the max amount of data (counted in megabytes per second) that can be transported over the external memory interface in a second. The number is calculated by multiplying the bus width by its memory speed. If the card has DDR type memory, it should be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the bandwidth is, 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 in one second. This figure is worked out by multiplying the total 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 per second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels that the graphics card can possibly record to the local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is worked out by multiplying the amount of Raster Operations Pipelines by the clock speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - sometimes also referred to as Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel output rate is also dependant on quite a few other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the max fill rate.

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GeForce 9600 GT 512MB

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Radeon R7 260X

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Please note that the price comparisons are based on search keywords - sometimes it might show cards with very similar names that are not exactly the same as the one chosen in the comparison. We do try to filter out the wrong results as best we can, though.

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