GeForce 9600 GT 1GB vs Radeon R9 380 4G

Intro

Compare that to the Radeon R9 380 4G, which features core speeds of 970 MHz on the GPU, and 1425 MHz on the 4096 MB of GDDR5 RAM. It features 1792 SPUs as well as 112 TAUs and 32 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce 9600 GT 1GB		95 Watts
Radeon R9 380 4G		190 Watts
	Difference: 95 Watts (100%)

Memory Bandwidth

Performance-wise, the Radeon R9 380 4G should in theory be quite a bit superior to the GeForce 9600 GT 1GB in general. (explain)

Radeon R9 380 4G		182400 MB/sec
GeForce 9600 GT 1GB		57600 MB/sec
	Difference: 124800 (217%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon R9 380 4G is much (about 422%) better at anisotropic filtering than the GeForce 9600 GT 1GB. (explain)

Radeon R9 380 4G		108640 Mtexels/sec
GeForce 9600 GT 1GB		20800 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 87840 (422%)

Pixel Rate

If using a high resolution is important to you, then the Radeon R9 380 4G is superior to the GeForce 9600 GT 1GB, by far. (explain)

Radeon R9 380 4G		31040 Mpixels/sec
GeForce 9600 GT 1GB		10400 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 20640 (198%)

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 moved past the external memory interface in one second. The number is worked out by multiplying the card's bus width by its memory clock speed. In the case of DDR memory, it should be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the bandwidth is, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, HDR and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum texture map elements (texels) that are applied per second. This number is worked out by multiplying the total texture units by the core speed of the chip. The higher the texel rate, the better the graphics card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels in one second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels that the graphics chip could possibly write to its local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is calculated by multiplying the number of colour ROPs by the clock speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also called Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel rate is also dependant on many other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the maximum fill rate.