GeForce 9600 GSO ASUS 512 vs Radeon R7 250X

Intro

Compare all that to the Radeon R7 250X, which comes with a core clock speed of 1000 MHz and a GDDR5 memory speed of 1125 MHz. It also features a 128-bit bus, and makes use of a 28 nm design. It is made up of 640 SPUs, 40 TAUs, and 16 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce 9600 GSO ASUS 512		84 Watts
Radeon R7 250X		95 Watts
	Difference: 11 Watts (13%)

Memory Bandwidth

As far as performance goes, the Radeon R7 250X should in theory be a lot superior to the GeForce 9600 GSO ASUS 512 in general. (explain)

Radeon R7 250X		72000 MB/sec
GeForce 9600 GSO ASUS 512		16000 MB/sec
	Difference: 56000 (350%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon R7 250X should be a lot (approximately 52%) faster with regards to anisotropic filtering than the GeForce 9600 GSO ASUS 512. (explain)

Radeon R7 250X		40000 Mtexels/sec
GeForce 9600 GSO ASUS 512		26400 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 13600 (52%)

Pixel Rate

If using a high screen resolution is important to you, then the Radeon R7 250X is the winner, by a large margin. (explain)

Radeon R7 250X		16000 Mpixels/sec
GeForce 9600 GSO ASUS 512		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.

Price Comparison

Specifications

Memory Bandwidth: Memory bandwidth is the largest amount of information (in units of megabytes per second) that can be transferred over the external memory interface within a second. The number is calculated by multiplying the interface width by the speed of its memory. If it uses DDR type RAM, the result should be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, HDR and higher screen resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels the video card could possibly record to the local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is calculated by multiplying the number of ROPs by the clock speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also called Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel output rate also depends on many other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the maximum fill rate.