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GeForce 9600 GT 512MB vs Radeon R9 380 2G
Intro
The GeForce 9600 GT 512MB features core speeds of 650 MHz on the GPU, and 900 MHz on the 512 MB of GDDR3 RAM. It features 64 SPUs along with 32 Texture Address Units and 16 Rasterization Operator Units.Compare all that to the Radeon R9 380 2G, which has a core clock frequency of 970 MHz and a GDDR5 memory speed of 1425 MHz. It also uses a 256-bit memory bus, and uses a 28 nm design. It features 1792 SPUs, 112 TAUs, and 32 ROPs.
Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks
Power Consumption (Max TDP)
| GeForce 9600 GT 512MB |
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95 Watts |
| Radeon R9 380 2G |
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190 Watts |
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Memory Bandwidth
The Radeon R9 380 2G should theoretically perform much faster than the GeForce 9600 GT 512MB in general. (explain)
| Radeon R9 380 2G |
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182400 MB/sec |
| GeForce 9600 GT 512MB |
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57600 MB/sec |
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Texel Rate
The Radeon R9 380 2G should be much (about 422%) better at anisotropic filtering than the GeForce 9600 GT 512MB. (explain)| Radeon R9 380 2G |
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108640 Mtexels/sec |
| GeForce 9600 GT 512MB |
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20800 Mtexels/sec |
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Pixel Rate
If running with a high screen resolution is important to you, then the Radeon R9 380 2G is the winner, by far. (explain)| Radeon R9 380 2G |
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31040 Mpixels/sec |
| GeForce 9600 GT 512MB |
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10400 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 512MB | Radeon R9 380 2G |
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| Manufacturer | nVidia | AMD |
| Year | Feb 2008 | June 2015 |
| Code Name | G94a/b | Antigua PRO |
| Memory | 512 MB | 2048 MB |
| Core Speed | 650 MHz | 970 MHz |
| Memory Speed | 1800 MHz | 5700 MHz |
| Power (Max TDP) | 95 watts | 190 watts |
| Bandwidth | 57600 MB/sec | 182400 MB/sec |
| Texel Rate | 20800 Mtexels/sec | 108640 Mtexels/sec |
| Pixel Rate | 10400 Mpixels/sec | 31040 Mpixels/sec |
| Unified Shaders | 64 | 1792 |
| Texture Mapping Units | 32 | 112 |
| Render Output Units | 16 | 32 |
| Bus Type | GDDR3 | GDDR5 |
| Bus Width | 256-bit | 256-bit |
| Fab Process | 65/55 nm | 28 nm |
| Transistors | 505 million | 5000 million |
| Bus | PCIe x16 2.0 | PCIe 3.0 ×16 |
| DirectX Version | DirectX 10 | DirectX 12.0 |
| OpenGL Version | OpenGL 3.0 | OpenGL 4.5 |
Memory Bandwidth: Bandwidth is the maximum amount of information (in units of MB per second) that can be moved past the external memory interface in a second. The number is calculated by multiplying the interface width by its memory speed. If the card has DDR type RAM, it must be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the card's memory bandwidth, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, HDR and higher screen resolutions.
Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum amount of texture map elements (texels) that are processed in one second. This figure is calculated by multiplying the total amount of texture units of the card 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 video card could possibly record to its local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is calculated by multiplying the number of Raster Operations Pipelines by the the core 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 is also dependant on lots of other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - 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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