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GeForce 9600 GSO ASUS 512 vs Radeon R9 M375

Intro

The GeForce 9600 GSO ASUS 512 comes with a core clock frequency of 550 MHz and a DDR2 memory speed of 500 MHz. It also uses a 128-bit memory bus, and makes use of a 65 nm design. It is comprised of 96 SPUs, 48 Texture Address Units, and 12 Raster Operation Units.

Compare all of that to the Radeon R9 M375, which makes use of a 28 nm design. AMD has clocked the core speed at 1015 MHz. The DDR3 memory works at a frequency of 1100 MHz on this specific model. It features 640 SPUs along with 40 Texture Address Units and 16 Rasterization Operator Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Memory Bandwidth

As far as performance goes, the Radeon R9 M375 should theoretically be quite a bit better than the GeForce 9600 GSO ASUS 512 overall. (explain)

Radeon R9 M375 35200 MB/sec
GeForce 9600 GSO ASUS 512 16000 MB/sec
Difference: 19200 (120%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon R9 M375 is quite a bit (more or less 54%) better at anisotropic filtering than the GeForce 9600 GSO ASUS 512. (explain)

Radeon R9 M375 40600 Mtexels/sec
GeForce 9600 GSO ASUS 512 26400 Mtexels/sec
Difference: 14200 (54%)

Pixel Rate

If using a high screen resolution is important to you, then the Radeon R9 M375 is a better choice, and very much so. (explain)

Radeon R9 M375 16240 Mpixels/sec
GeForce 9600 GSO ASUS 512 6600 Mpixels/sec
Difference: 9640 (146%)

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 M375
Manufacturer nVidia AMD
Year September 2008 2015
Code Name G92 Cape Verde
Memory 512 MB 4096 MB
Core Speed 550 MHz 1015 MHz
Memory Speed 1000 MHz 2200 MHz
Power (Max TDP) 84 watts (Unknown) watts
Bandwidth 16000 MB/sec 35200 MB/sec
Texel Rate 26400 Mtexels/sec 40600 Mtexels/sec
Pixel Rate 6600 Mpixels/sec 16240 Mpixels/sec
Unified Shaders 96 640
Texture Mapping Units 48 40
Render Output Units 12 16
Bus Type DDR2 DDR3
Bus Width 128-bit 128-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 12
OpenGL Version OpenGL 3.0 OpenGL 4.3

Memory Bandwidth: Memory bandwidth is the maximum amount of data (in units of MB per second) that can be moved past the external memory interface in a second. It's calculated by multiplying the bus width by the speed of its memory. In the case of DDR type RAM, the result should be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the bandwidth is, the better 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 number of texture map elements (texels) that can be applied per second. This number is calculated by multiplying the total amount of texture units of the card by the core clock speed of the chip. The better this number, the better the video card will be at texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels processed per second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels the video card can possibly write to its local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is calculated by multiplying the amount of Render Output Units 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 rate also depends on many other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory 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 M375

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