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GeForce 9600 GSO ASUS 512 vs Radeon R9 M290X

Intro

The GeForce 9600 GSO ASUS 512 has a clock speed of 550 MHz and a DDR2 memory speed of 500 MHz. It also uses a 128-bit bus, and uses a 65 nm design. It features 96 SPUs, 48 Texture Address Units, and 12 ROPs.

Compare those specs to the Radeon R9 M290X, which features a core clock frequency of 850 MHz and a GDDR5 memory frequency of 1200 MHz. It also features a 256-bit memory bus, and uses a 28 nm design. It is made up of 1280 SPUs, 80 Texture Address Units, and 32 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce 9600 GSO ASUS 512 84 Watts
Radeon R9 M290X 100 Watts
Difference: 16 Watts (19%)

Memory Bandwidth

Performance-wise, the Radeon R9 M290X should in theory be much better than the GeForce 9600 GSO ASUS 512 in general. (explain)

Radeon R9 M290X 153600 MB/sec
GeForce 9600 GSO ASUS 512 16000 MB/sec
Difference: 137600 (860%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon R9 M290X should be much (about 158%) faster with regards to AF than the GeForce 9600 GSO ASUS 512. (explain)

Radeon R9 M290X 68000 Mtexels/sec
GeForce 9600 GSO ASUS 512 26400 Mtexels/sec
Difference: 41600 (158%)

Pixel Rate

If running with lots of anti-aliasing is important to you, then the Radeon R9 M290X is a better choice, by far. (explain)

Radeon R9 M290X 27200 Mpixels/sec
GeForce 9600 GSO ASUS 512 6600 Mpixels/sec
Difference: 20600 (312%)

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

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Model GeForce 9600 GSO ASUS 512 Radeon R9 M290X
Manufacturer nVidia AMD
Year September 2008 May 1 2014
Code Name G92 Neptune XT
Memory 512 MB 4096 MB
Core Speed 550 MHz 850 MHz
Memory Speed 1000 MHz 4800 MHz
Power (Max TDP) 84 watts 100 watts
Bandwidth 16000 MB/sec 153600 MB/sec
Texel Rate 26400 Mtexels/sec 68000 Mtexels/sec
Pixel Rate 6600 Mpixels/sec 27200 Mpixels/sec
Unified Shaders 96 1280
Texture Mapping Units 48 80
Render Output Units 12 32
Bus Type DDR2 GDDR5
Bus Width 128-bit 256-bit
Fab Process 65 nm 28 nm
Transistors 754 million (Unknown) million
Bus PCIe x16 2.0 PCIe 3.0 x16
DirectX Version DirectX 10 DirectX 11.2
OpenGL Version OpenGL 3.0 OpenGL 4.3

Memory Bandwidth: Bandwidth is the largest amount of information (in units of MB per second) that can be transported past the external memory interface in one second. It's worked out by multiplying the bus width by its memory clock speed. If it uses DDR type RAM, it should be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the memory bandwidth, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, High Dynamic Range and high resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels that the graphics card can possibly write to the local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is worked out by multiplying the amount of Raster Operations Pipelines by the clock speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also sometimes called Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel rate also depends on lots of other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the maximum fill rate.

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GeForce 9600 GSO ASUS 512

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Radeon R9 M290X

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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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