GeForce 9600 GSO 512MB vs Radeon R9 M395X

Intro

Compare all that to the Radeon R9 M395X, which features GPU core speed of 723 MHz, and 4096 MB of GDDR5 memory running at 1250 MHz through a 256-bit bus. It also is made up of 2048 SPUs, 128 TAUs, and 32 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce 9600 GSO 512MB		90 Watts
Radeon R9 M395X		125 Watts
	Difference: 35 Watts (39%)

Memory Bandwidth

The Radeon R9 M395X, in theory, should perform a lot faster than the GeForce 9600 GSO 512MB in general. (explain)

Radeon R9 M395X		160000 MB/sec
GeForce 9600 GSO 512MB		57600 MB/sec
	Difference: 102400 (178%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon R9 M395X should be much (about 197%) faster with regards to AF than the GeForce 9600 GSO 512MB. (explain)

Radeon R9 M395X		92544 Mtexels/sec
GeForce 9600 GSO 512MB		31200 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 61344 (197%)

Pixel Rate

If running with a high screen resolution is important to you, then the Radeon R9 M395X is superior to the GeForce 9600 GSO 512MB, by a large margin. (explain)

Radeon R9 M395X		23136 Mpixels/sec
GeForce 9600 GSO 512MB		10400 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 12736 (122%)

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 largest amount of data (measured in MB per second) that can be transferred across the external memory interface within a second. It's worked out by multiplying the card's interface width by its memory clock speed. If it uses DDR RAM, it must 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 AA, HDR and high resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels the graphics card could possibly write to its local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is worked out by multiplying the amount of Render Output Units by the the core speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - aka Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel output 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.