GeForce 9600 GSO 768MB vs Radeon R7 360

Intro

Compare that to the Radeon R7 360, which has GPU core speed of 1050 MHz, and 2048 MB of GDDR5 memory set to run at 1625 MHz through a 128-bit bus. It also is comprised of 768 Stream Processors, 48 Texture Address Units, and 16 Raster Operation Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce 9600 GSO 768MB		84 Watts
Radeon R7 360		100 Watts
	Difference: 16 Watts (19%)

Memory Bandwidth

In theory, the Radeon R7 360 will be 171% faster than the GeForce 9600 GSO 768MB in general, due to its higher bandwidth. (explain)

Radeon R7 360		104000 MB/sec
GeForce 9600 GSO 768MB		38400 MB/sec
	Difference: 65600 (171%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon R7 360 is quite a bit (more or less 91%) better at anisotropic filtering than the GeForce 9600 GSO 768MB. (explain)

Radeon R7 360		50400 Mtexels/sec
GeForce 9600 GSO 768MB		26400 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 24000 (91%)

Pixel Rate

The Radeon R7 360 will be a lot (more or less 155%) more effective at AA than the GeForce 9600 GSO 768MB, and also capable of handling higher screen resolutions without losing too much performance. (explain)

Radeon R7 360		16800 Mpixels/sec
GeForce 9600 GSO 768MB		6600 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 10200 (155%)

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 maximum amount of information (in units of megabytes per second) that can be moved over the external memory interface within a second. The number is worked out by multiplying the bus width by its memory speed. If it uses DDR type RAM, 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 amount of texture map elements (texels) that can be applied in one second. This figure is worked out by multiplying the total number of texture units by the core speed of the chip. The higher this number, the better the graphics card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels processed per second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels 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 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 lots of other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the maximum fill rate.