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GeForce 9600 GT 1GB vs Radeon HD 5670
Intro
The GeForce 9600 GT 1GB comes with a clock frequency of 650 MHz and a GDDR3 memory speed of 900 MHz. It also features a 256-bit memory bus, and uses a 65/55 nm design. It is made up of 64 SPUs, 32 Texture Address Units, and 16 Raster Operation Units.Compare all of that to the Radeon HD 5670, which makes use of a 40 nm design. AMD has clocked the core frequency at 775 MHz. The GDDR5 RAM works at a frequency of 1000 MHz on this card. It features 400(80x5) SPUs along with 20 TAUs and 8 Rasterization Operator Units.
Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks
Power Consumption (Max TDP)
| Radeon HD 5670 |
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61 Watts |
| GeForce 9600 GT 1GB |
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95 Watts |
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Memory Bandwidth
The Radeon HD 5670 should in theory perform just a bit faster than the GeForce 9600 GT 1GB in general. (explain)
| Radeon HD 5670 |
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64000 MB/sec |
| GeForce 9600 GT 1GB |
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57600 MB/sec |
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Texel Rate
The GeForce 9600 GT 1GB will be much (more or less 34%) more effective at anisotropic filtering than the Radeon HD 5670. (explain)| GeForce 9600 GT 1GB |
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20800 Mtexels/sec |
| Radeon HD 5670 |
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15500 Mtexels/sec |
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Pixel Rate
If using a high resolution is important to you, then the GeForce 9600 GT 1GB is a better choice, by far. (explain)| GeForce 9600 GT 1GB |
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10400 Mpixels/sec |
| Radeon HD 5670 |
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6200 Mpixels/sec |
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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
| Model | GeForce 9600 GT 1GB | Radeon HD 5670 |
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| Manufacturer | nVidia | AMD |
| Year | Feb 2008 | January 14, 2010 |
| Code Name | G94a/b | Redwood XT |
| Memory | 1024 MB | 1024 MB |
| Core Speed | 650 MHz | 775 MHz |
| Memory Speed | 1800 MHz | 4000 MHz |
| Power (Max TDP) | 95 watts | 61 watts |
| Bandwidth | 57600 MB/sec | 64000 MB/sec |
| Texel Rate | 20800 Mtexels/sec | 15500 Mtexels/sec |
| Pixel Rate | 10400 Mpixels/sec | 6200 Mpixels/sec |
| Unified Shaders | 64 | 400(80x5) |
| Texture Mapping Units | 32 | 20 |
| Render Output Units | 16 | 8 |
| Bus Type | GDDR3 | GDDR5 |
| Bus Width | 256-bit | 128-bit |
| Fab Process | 65/55 nm | 40 nm |
| Transistors | 505 million | 627 million |
| Bus | PCIe x16 2.0 | PCIe 2.1 x16 |
| DirectX Version | DirectX 10 | DirectX 11 |
| OpenGL Version | OpenGL 3.0 | OpenGL 3.2 |
Memory Bandwidth: Bandwidth is the max amount of data (measured in megabytes per second) that can be transferred across the external memory interface in one second. It is calculated by multiplying the card's interface width by the speed of its memory. If it uses DDR type RAM, it must be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses 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 higher screen resolutions.
Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum texture map elements (texels) that can be processed in one second. This figure is calculated by multiplying the total texture units 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 per second.
Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels that the graphics card could possibly record to its local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is calculated by multiplying the amount of Render Output Units by the the card's clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - aka Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel fill rate also depends on quite a few 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.
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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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