GeForce 9600 GT 1GB vs Radeon R7 M265

Intro

Compare that to the Radeon R7 M265, which has a GPU core clock speed of 725 MHz, and 2048 MB of DDR3 memory running at 1000 MHz through a 128-bit bus. It also is comprised of 384 Stream Processors, 24 TAUs, and 8 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the GeForce 9600 GT 1GB will be 80% faster than the Radeon R7 M265 overall, because of its greater bandwidth. (explain)

GeForce 9600 GT 1GB		57600 MB/sec
Radeon R7 M265		32000 MB/sec
	Difference: 25600 (80%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce 9600 GT 1GB is just a bit (about 20%) more effective at AF than the Radeon R7 M265. (explain)

GeForce 9600 GT 1GB		20800 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R7 M265		17400 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 3400 (20%)

Pixel Rate

If using a high resolution is important to you, then the GeForce 9600 GT 1GB is the winner, by far. (explain)

GeForce 9600 GT 1GB		10400 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R7 M265		5800 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 4600 (79%)

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 largest amount of information (measured in megabytes per second) that can be moved over the external memory interface in one second. It's worked out by multiplying the bus width by its memory clock speed. In the case of DDR type RAM, it must be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the card's memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, High Dynamic Range and high resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels the video card can possibly record to its local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is calculated by multiplying the amount 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 output rate is also dependant 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.