GeForce 9600 GT 1GB vs Radeon R9 M385X

Intro

Compare those specs to the Radeon R9 M385X, which makes use of a 28 nm design. AMD has set the core frequency at 1100 MHz. The GDDR5 RAM is set to run at a frequency of 1500 MHz on this specific card. It features 896 SPUs along with 56 Texture Address Units and 16 Rasterization Operator Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the Radeon R9 M385X should perform a lot faster than the GeForce 9600 GT 1GB in general. (explain)

Radeon R9 M385X		96000 MB/sec
GeForce 9600 GT 1GB		57600 MB/sec
	Difference: 38400 (67%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon R9 M385X is quite a bit (more or less 196%) faster with regards to texture filtering than the GeForce 9600 GT 1GB. (explain)

Radeon R9 M385X		61600 Mtexels/sec
GeForce 9600 GT 1GB		20800 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 40800 (196%)

Pixel Rate

The Radeon R9 M385X is much (about 69%) better at FSAA than the GeForce 9600 GT 1GB, and also capable of handling higher resolutions more effectively. (explain)

Radeon R9 M385X		17600 Mpixels/sec
GeForce 9600 GT 1GB		10400 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 7200 (69%)

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 data (counted in megabytes per second) that can be moved over the external memory interface within a second. It is worked out by multiplying the card's interface width by its memory clock speed. If it uses DDR memory, the result should be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the bandwidth is, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, High Dynamic Range and higher screen resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels that the graphics card can possibly record to its local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is calculated by multiplying the number of Render Output Units by the the card's clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - sometimes also referred to as 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 bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the max fill rate.