GeForce 9600 GSO 768MB vs Radeon R7 370 4G

Intro

Compare all that to the Radeon R7 370 4G, which features core clock speeds of 975 MHz on the GPU, and 1400 MHz on the 4096 MB of GDDR5 RAM. It features 1024 SPUs as well as 64 TAUs and 32 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce 9600 GSO 768MB		84 Watts
Radeon R7 370 4G		110 Watts
	Difference: 26 Watts (31%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically, the Radeon R7 370 4G should be a lot faster than the GeForce 9600 GSO 768MB in general. (explain)

Radeon R7 370 4G		179200 MB/sec
GeForce 9600 GSO 768MB		38400 MB/sec
	Difference: 140800 (367%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon R7 370 4G should be quite a bit (more or less 136%) faster with regards to anisotropic filtering than the GeForce 9600 GSO 768MB. (explain)

Radeon R7 370 4G		62400 Mtexels/sec
GeForce 9600 GSO 768MB		26400 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 36000 (136%)

Pixel Rate

The Radeon R7 370 4G will be quite a bit (approximately 373%) better at anti-aliasing than the GeForce 9600 GSO 768MB, and also should be able to handle higher resolutions without losing too much performance. (explain)

Radeon R7 370 4G		31200 Mpixels/sec
GeForce 9600 GSO 768MB		6600 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 24600 (373%)

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 information (in units of megabytes per second) that can be transported over the external memory interface in one second. The number is calculated by multiplying the card's interface width by its memory speed. If the card has DDR type memory, it must be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. 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 amount of texture map elements (texels) that are processed per second. This is calculated by multiplying the total texture units of the card by the core clock speed of the chip. The better the texel rate, the better the video card will be at texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels applied per second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels that the graphics card can possibly write to its local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is calculated by multiplying the amount of Raster Operations Pipelines by the the core clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also called Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to 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 maximum fill rate.