GeForce 9600 GSO ASUS 512 vs Radeon R7 250X 2GB

Intro

Compare all of that to the Radeon R7 250X 2GB, which comes with GPU core speed of 1000 MHz, and 2048 MB of GDDR5 memory set to run at 1125 MHz through a 128-bit bus. It also features 640 Stream Processors, 40 TAUs, and 16 Raster Operation Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce 9600 GSO ASUS 512		84 Watts
Radeon R7 250X 2GB		95 Watts
	Difference: 11 Watts (13%)

Memory Bandwidth

In theory, the Radeon R7 250X 2GB should be 350% faster than the GeForce 9600 GSO ASUS 512 in general, because of its higher bandwidth. (explain)

Radeon R7 250X 2GB		72000 MB/sec
GeForce 9600 GSO ASUS 512		16000 MB/sec
	Difference: 56000 (350%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon R7 250X 2GB should be a lot (about 52%) more effective at anisotropic filtering than the GeForce 9600 GSO ASUS 512. (explain)

Radeon R7 250X 2GB		40000 Mtexels/sec
GeForce 9600 GSO ASUS 512		26400 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 13600 (52%)

Pixel Rate

If running with lots of anti-aliasing is important to you, then the Radeon R7 250X 2GB is the winner, by a large margin. (explain)

Radeon R7 250X 2GB		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: Bandwidth is the largest amount of data (in units of MB per second) that can be moved across the external memory interface in a second. The number is worked out by multiplying the card's bus width by its memory speed. If it uses DDR memory, the result should be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the card's memory bandwidth, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, HDR and high resolutions.

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

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