GeForce 9600 GSO 768MB vs Radeon R9 Fury X

Intro

Compare that to the Radeon R9 Fury X, which makes use of a 28 nm design. AMD has set the core speed at 1050 MHz. The HBM RAM works at a frequency of 500 MHz on this model. It features 4096 SPUs as well as 256 TAUs and 64 Rasterization Operator Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce 9600 GSO 768MB		84 Watts
Radeon R9 Fury X		275 Watts
	Difference: 191 Watts (227%)

Memory Bandwidth

As far as performance goes, the Radeon R9 Fury X should in theory be a lot better than the GeForce 9600 GSO 768MB overall. (explain)

Radeon R9 Fury X		512000 MB/sec
GeForce 9600 GSO 768MB		38400 MB/sec
	Difference: 473600 (1233%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon R9 Fury X is quite a bit (approximately 918%) faster with regards to anisotropic filtering than the GeForce 9600 GSO 768MB. (explain)

Radeon R9 Fury X		268800 Mtexels/sec
GeForce 9600 GSO 768MB		26400 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 242400 (918%)

Pixel Rate

The Radeon R9 Fury X should be quite a bit (approximately 918%) more effective at anti-aliasing than the GeForce 9600 GSO 768MB, and will be able to handle higher screen resolutions without losing too much performance. (explain)

Radeon R9 Fury X		67200 Mpixels/sec
GeForce 9600 GSO 768MB		6600 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 60600 (918%)

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 (counted in megabytes per second) that can be transferred past the external memory interface in a second. The number is worked out by multiplying the card's interface width by its memory speed. In the case of DDR type memory, it should be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better 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 are processed per second. This figure is calculated by multiplying the total amount of texture units by the core speed of the chip. The better this number, the better the video card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels processed in a second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels that the graphics card could possibly write to the local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is worked out by multiplying the number of Raster Operations Pipelines by the the card's clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also sometimes called Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel fill rate also depends on many other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the maximum fill rate.