GeForce 9600 GSO 512MB vs Radeon R5 M330

Intro

Compare all of that to the Radeon R5 M330, which features core speeds of 1030 MHz on the GPU, and 900 MHz on the 2048 MB of DDR3 memory. It features 320 SPUs as well as 20 Texture Address Units and 8 Rasterization Operator Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Memory Bandwidth

As far as performance goes, the GeForce 9600 GSO 512MB should in theory be quite a bit superior to the Radeon R5 M330 in general. (explain)

GeForce 9600 GSO 512MB		57600 MB/sec
Radeon R5 M330		14400 MB/sec
	Difference: 43200 (300%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce 9600 GSO 512MB should be a lot (approximately 51%) faster with regards to AF than the Radeon R5 M330. (explain)

GeForce 9600 GSO 512MB		31200 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R5 M330		20600 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 10600 (51%)

Pixel Rate

If running with a high screen resolution is important to you, then the GeForce 9600 GSO 512MB is a better choice, and very much so. (explain)

GeForce 9600 GSO 512MB		10400 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R5 M330		8240 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 2160 (26%)

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 max amount of information (counted in megabytes per second) that can be transferred across the external memory interface in a second. The number is worked out by multiplying the card's interface width by the speed of its memory. If it uses DDR type RAM, the result should be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, HDR and higher screen resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum texture map elements (texels) that are processed in one second. This is calculated by multiplying the total amount of 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 applied per second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels that the graphics chip can possibly write to its local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is worked out by multiplying the number of colour ROPs by the the card's clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also sometimes called Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel output rate is also dependant on quite a few other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the max fill rate.